Conner v. Bowdoin

The plaintiffs and each of them held remainder interests in the life estate being enjoyed by the defendant until her death and on which it is claimed she committed waste and failed to protect by illegally cutting the timber from certain portions thereof. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendant cut timber valued at $2775 from lots 280, 281, and 297. There was no proof to this effect. Where a plaintiff fails to prove the case as laid in the petition, the grant of a nonsuit is not error. Harris v. Paulk, 10 Ga. App. 334 (73 S. E. 430); Byas v. Hammond, 32 Ga. App. 18 (122 S. E. 708). The…