Monroe v. McCranie & Vickers

An action of_trespass was brought by Monroe against McCranie & Vickers, a partnership, and O. G. McCranie and E. L. Vickers, as members of that firm, the plaintiff alleging in his petition that the defendants, “in the fall or winter of 1892, without warrant or authority and against the express wish and desire of petitioner, entered upon ” a designated tract of land belonging to him and, together “with their employees,- . . boxed the pine timber thereon for turpentine purposes; and thereafter, during the years 1893, 1894,1895, and 1896, worked the same for their own profit and benefit, to the…