Peavy-Byrnes Lumber Co. v. Long-Bell Lumber Co.

PORTERIE, District Judge.

There have been contractual relations between the two litigants from the year 1926 to the year 1938. Extensive exploitation of large timber tracts was the subject of their mutual interest. All differences between them have been amicably settled, except the question as to which of the two is to pay an amount of $10,624.08, representing the taxes on the timbered tracts for the years 1932 through 1937. The taxes were paid by the seller, though the alienation records of the parish where the timber was situated showed the sale and named the purchaser.

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