Williams v. Johns-Carroll Lumber Co.

GARDNER, Justice.

The appeal is from a decree sustaining demurrer to complainant’s bill, rested, as we interpret brief of counsel, upon the theory the bill is without equity. And this theory, in turn, is rested upon the conclu sion that the defendant lumber company was in the exercise of its legal rights under its timber sale contract.

Omitting details, the salient facts may be summarized as follows: Complainant, first a tenant of R. H. Powell, and others whom he represented, on a tract of land known as the “Duck Williams place” containing approximately 1,682 acres, became a purchaser of the…