Brooks v. Epperson

The Epperson Lumber Company was the owner of a tract of timber land in Charlotte county, which it had purchased from T. D. Dillon. Brooks and Davis owned and operated a sawmill. By contract under seal of date April 19, 1928, they agreed to move their mill upon this Dillon tract and to cut, log, saw and stack all of the standing timber upon it for a stipulated price. Afterward these sawmill men, by verbal contract, agreed to saw for this lumber company timber on an adjoining tract which it owned, known as the Thornton tract. Work was completed in the early part of March, 1929. A dispute arose…