Rayonier, Incorporated, E. W. Cone and Ed Jackson v. James C. Bryan and William L. Bryan

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought against W. L. Bounds, plaintiffs’ grantee in a timber deed, and his assignee, Rayonier, Inc., and against E. W. Cone and Ed Jackson, as their servants or agents, the suit was for fire damages to timber and improvements on plaintiffs’ lands.

The claim was that Ed Jackson, as agent or servant of E. W. Cone and of the other defendants, in the course of cutting the timber for them, negligently and unlawfully set out a fire and permitted it to grow and spread with resulting damage to plaintiffs.

All the defendants denied the allegations of fault, while Rayonier,…