Burbridge v. Arkansas Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Bradley Chancery Court; Zachariah T. Wood, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The title to timber on about 4,000 acres of land is involved in this controversy.
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Appeal from Bradley Chancery Court; Zachariah T. Wood, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The title to timber on about 4,000 acres of land is involved in this controversy. Twenty separate suits were instituted against the -appellees, the Arkansas Lumber Company, tbe Bradley Lumber 'Company and the S-ou-th•em Lumber Company, independent lumber manufacturing corporations, with tbeir mills located at W-arren, Bradley County, Arkansas, to cancel and set aside as a ■cloud on their title to the lands, -certain -timber deeds in each -one of which one of -said lumber -companies was grantee. Six…
1Opinion of the Court
Kirby, J.,
(after stating the facts). Appellants insist that they are entitled to have the deeds to appellees cancelled as a cloud upon their title and recover the timber conveyed therein, within the authority of Earl v. Harris, 99 Ark. 112; Yelvington v. Short, 111 Ark. 253, and Newton v. Warren Vehicle Stock Co., 116 Ark. 393, 173 S. W. 819.
The deeds conveying the timber to appellees all contain clauses requiring 'the removal thereof ££as expeditiously and possible,” identical with those construed in the above causes, except ¡as to the time mentioned, which was twenty, twenty-one, thirty -…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Liston v. Chapman & Dewey Land Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1905
- Earl v. HarrisSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1911
- Newton v. Warren Vehicle Stock Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1915
- Yelvington v. ShortSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1914
3Cited by9 opinions
- Ozan-Graysonia Lumber Company v. SwearingenSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1925
- Hampton Stave Co. v. ElliottSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1916
- Lawless v. Caddo River Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1920
- Beattie v. SmithSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1920
- Union Saw Mill Co. v. AgertonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1930
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