Crowell & Spencer Lumber Co. v. Burns

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is a contest over the title to the standing timber on 80 acres of land belonging to the defendants. The plaintiff, lumber company, claiming to be in possession as owner of the timber, brought an action for slander of title against the defendants, heirs of John E. Burns. They, answering the suit, admitted that they were claiming title to the timber; hence they set up a reconventional demand to be decreed the owners of the timber. The suit was converted thus into a petitory action, in which the heirs of Burns became the plaintiffs, and the lumber company the…