Mt. Vernon Lumber Co. v. Shepard

Appeal from Mobile Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. Stewart Brooks, Special Chancellor. Bill by the Mt. Vernon Lumber Company against Kate T. Shepard and others to enforce certain rights in standing timber and to determine the damages to the land on account of its removal. From a decree sustaining demurrers to the bill complainant appeals. The bill sets out the agreement noted in the opinion, alleges the payment of the notes and the fact .that, it entered and cut a portion of the timber and trees growing thereon, as it had a right to do, and further alleges that there is now growing on said…