Hughes v. Bivins

I. Where an owner of realty sells to another, “successors and assigns,” the timber on the lands for sawmill purposes, including the usual right of ingress and egress, with the further privilege of establishing a sawmill upon the premises, one who is employed by a transferee of the purchaser to cut, haul, and saw the timber at a certain sum per thousand feet, and who on entering the premises for that purpose is forced by the threats and violence of the vendor of the timber to vacate the premises and to cease his employment, is entitled to maintain an action in tort against the vendor for the…