Drake v. . Howell

This action was brought by the plaintiffs to recover damages for cutting and removing timber for a tract of land known as the Britt place. The land belonged to H. B. Parker, Sr., who in 1899, conveyed it to his sons, H. B. Parker, Jr., and Fred P. Parker. The plaintiffs alleged that they had purchased the standing timber on the land from H. B. Parker, Sr., "by a verbal contract." They introduced in evidence an agreement, in form of a deed, dated 13 September, 1897, by which the trees on the Britt place were conveyed by the plaintiff J. C. Drake to S.D. Howell Co., of which firm the defendant…