Legal Opinion

Woods v. Union Sawmill Co.

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided November 26, 1917No. 20971PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal from Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of Union; John B. Holstead, Judge. Suit for injunction by Robert P. Woods against the Union Sawmill Company, with reconventional demand for damages. Judgment for plaintiff making the injunction perpetual and for damages, and defendant appeals, and plaintiff, answering the appeal, prays for the allowance of his supplemental petition.

1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.

On the 10th of April, 1905, Dr. Robert P. Woods, the plaintiff in this suit, sold to one John Donley for $337.50 cash, a tract of timber land, containing 160 acres, in Union parish. It was stipulated in the deed that Donley would reconvey the property to Dr. Woods on repayment of the price of $337.50 at any time within a year.

On the 13th of January, 1906, a representative of the Union Sawmill Company, the defendant in this suit, called upon Dr. Woods, in Sherrill, Ark., with a view of buying the timber on the land for the sawmill company. Dr. Woods agreed to sell the timber for $1,300, and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Savage v. Wyatt Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1914

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Ward v. Hayes-Ewell Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1923
  2. Simmons v. Tremont Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1919
  3. Crowell & Spencer Lumber Co. v. BurnsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1939
  4. Willetts Wood Products Co. v. Concordia Land & Timber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
  5. Hickman v. Enterprise Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1925

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