Schneider v. Rockwell-Powers Lumber Co.

PORTERIE, District Judge.

The plaintiff, a resident of the city of Houston, state of Texas, sues the three defendants, citizens and residents of the Western District of Louisiana, in either one of two sums: (a) $7,500, representing a timber trespass on the lands of plaintiff in the quantity of 500,000 feet at $15 per' thousand, or (b) in the sum of $12,500 for the same 500,000 feet at $25 per thousand; the variation being based upon whether the trespass on, or the taking of the timber off, the lands of plaintiff be in legal or in moral bad faith, respectively.

A plea of prescription was filed…