Bradford-Kennedy Co. v. Brown

This is a petitory action in which plaintiff company seeks to be recognized as the lawful owner of all merchantable timber on a tract of 337 acres of land in Claiborne parish, and to recover the value of certain timber cut and removed from said land by defendant and his agents, and manufactured into lumber.

Plaintiff company has instituted this suit against defendant as a mere trespasser upon the land in question. It alleges that it acquired this timber by deed from Thos. B. Leake, the owner of same, under date' of May 19,1917, and that said deed was duly recorded in the conveyance records of…