Cothran v. Long Cane Lumber Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice 'StabeEr.

This action was brought by the plaintiffs against the defendant for damages for entering upon the plaintiffs’ lands and cutting, sawing, and removing timber thereon and therefrom, and committing waste in the sum of $5,500.00 actual and punitive damages. On July 17, 1917, Mrs. Cornelia B. Cothran, the then owner of the lands out of which this .controversy arose, sold to Osborne Lumber Company, a partnership, the pine timber on the lands, and under the contract of sale the company was to have until July 17, 1920, to cut and…