Triche v. Brownell-Drews Lumber Co.

This is a suit in which plaintiff demands $12,240 damages for trespass. The trespass consists of cutting and removing cypress timber from land in Assumption parish, claimed by plaintiffs, two of whom claim an undivided half interest in the land as heirs of their deceased mother, who was the wife of the remaining plaintiff Charles L. Triche. The defense is a denial that defendant cut and removed any cypress trees from the land described as belonging to plaintiffs, with the exception of 110 trees, acquired by it from Jean Cavaliere, a denial of the quantity alleged to have been cut, and the…