Drake v. Howell
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by J. C. Drake and others against S. D. Howell and others, heard by Judge Frederick Moore and a jury at September Term, 1903, of the Superior Court of Heetpobd County. From a judgment for the plaintiffs the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWaleee, J.
This action was brought by the plaintiffs to recover damages for cutting and removing timber from 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 September 13, 1897, by which tire trees on the Britt place were conveyed by the plaintiff J. C. Drake to S. D. Howell & Co., of which firm the…
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