Brown v. Hodge-Hunt Lumber Co.

This suit is for the value of timber cut and removed from a certain tract of land claimed by the plaintiff and fully described in the petition.

The plaintiff’s title, to the land has its origin in a deed from the defendant company to G. A. Woods, of date December 4, 1906.

The ownership of the timber is claimed by virtue of a tax sale in the name of the estate of said Woods for the taxes of 1918.

The defendant denied that the plaintiff was the owner of either the land or timber, asserted ownership of the timber itself, with the fight to cut and remove the timber at any time, and further pleaded…