Warren v. Creel

LE BLANC, Judge.

This suit originated as one for damages for trespass by cutting pine timber on land described as being the S. W. ¼ of the N. E. ¼ of Section 3 T. 1 S. R. 11 East, St. Helena Meridian in the Parish of Washington, of which the plaintiffs J. E. Warren and Freddie Warren Duffy claim to be the owners. The demand against the defendant, Wiley Creel, was for the sum of $41.30.

Defendant admits cutting the timber but avers that he paid the market price to one Cleve Barber, from whom he had purchased it and who had warranted that he owned it and the land on which it stood. He accordingly…