ROBERTS MARBLE COMPANY v. Bridges

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

A timber lease, conveying “all pine timber which has been worked or cupped for turpentine purposes and all other timber on the lands . . described, measuring nine inches and up in diameter at the stump at the time of cutting,” conveys all the timber, including saw, pulpwood, fence-post, cross-tie, and of any other nature as long as it measures as above, and the statement in the time-limit clause of the lease, expressly limiting it to five years from date, which states “in any event, purchasers shall not cut over any portion of the land more than once,” does not…