Williams v. Industrial Helicopters, Inc.

KNOLL, Judge.

This appeal concerns the award of treble damages for wrongfully felled timber. Plaintiff, C. Herman Williams, brought this action against Concordia Electric Co-op. (hereafter Concordia) and Industrial Helicopters, Inc. (hereafter Industrial) for damages he sustained when Concordia cut and felled timber off of its right-of-way.

Concordia filed a third-party demand against Industrial seeking indemnification, claiming that if the trial court allowed plaintiff to recover damages, Industrial should be held liable alone, in that it was their negligence which caused such damages and not…