Gowen v. New Orleans Naval Stores Co.

Gowen and Vickery brought their equitable petition against the New Orleans Naval Stores Company and J. M. Pineda, for injunction to restrain defendants from boxing, cupping, or working the pine timber on a certain designated lot of land. Subsequently Isham Aldridge came in, and, alleging that he was the warrantor of the defendants named in the petition, was on his own motion made a party defendant along with those named. In due course the case came on for trial before a jury; and when the evidence for the plaintiffs was closed the defendants moved the court to exclude from evidence a lease…