Yarno v. Hedlund Box & Lumber Co.

The appellant, Hedlnnd Box & Lumber Company, a corporation, owns and operates a sawmill, planing mill and box factory, located at the city of Spokane. Sometime prior to October 2, 1922, it *459purchased from the United States, through its forestry service, all of the merchantable timber standing and growing upon certain described land forming a part of a government forest reservation situated in the state of Idaho. The timber consisted of various kinds, and amounted in quantity, according to the cruise of a member of the forestry service, to approximately fourteen million five hundred thousand…