Furman v. A. C. Tuxbury Land & Timber Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Peuripoy, J., Charleston, Fall term, 1917. Action by Boliver B. Furman and another against the A. C. Tuxbury Band & Timber Company, a corporation.
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Before Peuripoy, J., Charleston, Fall term, 1917. Action by Boliver B. Furman and another against the A. C. Tuxbury Band & Timber Company, a corporation. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals. submit: The complaint did not charge negligence of the defendant; but charged a wilful tort, and it was error in the presiding Judge to charge the jury that plaintiffs could recover for the negligence of the defendant: 61 S. C. 186; 64 S. C. 491; 78 S. C, 421; 84 S. C. 35; 32 S. C. 410, and the cases cited therein at pp. 429, 430, 431, 432. See, also, 433; 78 S. C. 419, 421, 422, 420.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Hydrick.
Defendant appeals from judgment on verdict for plaintiffs for $10,000 damages done to plaintiffs’ lands and the reserved timber thereon by defendant in cutting and removing therefrom certain timber which defendant had acquired the right to cut and remove under conveyances from plaintiffs.
In 1902, plaintiffs conveyed to another all the pine timber of ten inches (stump diameter) and upwards, at the time of cutting, on several tracts of their lands aggregating more than 7,000 acres. The deed contains the privileges and easements…
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