Harrell v. Hannum & Coleman

Bleckley, Judge.

This case presents a contest over cattle and turpentine. The herdsman makes a stand against the aggressions of the manufacturer. The man whose vocation it is to turn the herbage into beef rises up against the man who seeks to convert the trees into turpentine. The disputed element is fire. Eire is the friend and ally of him who seeks after turpentine, *509but the mortal enemy of him who rejoices in the possession of many cattle. The one ranges the forest with his brands of burning; the other, in alarm, cries fire! and clamors for its extinction by a court of equity. And equity, it…