Wallace v. Lackey

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hurt

Reversing.

This is an appeal- from a judgment of the Lawrence Circuit Court, in an action wherein F. T. D. Wallace, Jr., and others, the appellants, were the plaintiffs, and the appellee, James Q. Lackey, was the defendant. The action was to recover from the appellee the value of certain trees, which appellants alleged that he had wrongfully cut and removed from their lands and converted to his own use, and damages done to their lands by cutting underbrush and making roads over them. *141The defense of the appellee consisted of a denial of the ownership of the…