Gloster Lumber Co. v. Wilkinson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Amite county. Hon. R. E. Jackson, Jr., Judge. Suit by Z. J. Williamson against the Gloster Lumber Company, and others. Ftom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Stevens, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court., Appellee, as plaintiff in the court below, instituted this action for damages against appellant, Gloster Lumber. Company, a1 corporation owning and operating a sawmill and logging ralroad, and against W. J. Allen, woods superintendent, J. S. Ball, team foreman, and Clyde Webb, the section foreman of the said corporation. It is charged in the declaration that the defendant corporation, acting through its said officers and agents, willfully and wantonly set fire to and burned over about fifty acres of woods land, the property of the plaintiff,…
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