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MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TIMBER CO. v. MENGEL CO.

No. 9480.

112 F.2d 947 (1940)

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TIMBER CO. v. MENGEL CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 27, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. B. Daggett, of Marianna, Ark., for appellant.

Percy Bell, of Greenville, Miss., Gerard Brandon and Gerard H. Brandon, both of Natchez, Miss., and H. Payne Breazeale and Victor A. Sachse, both of Baton Rouge, La., for appellees.

Before FOSTER, HUTCHESON, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit was to recover the value of cottonwood timber allegedly wrongfully cut and removed from plaintiff's lands. The claim in substance was that the lands from which the timber was cut, were accretions to and therefore parts of Section 12, and Lot 8, Section 11, Township 14, Range 9 West, Washington County, Mississippi, owned by plaintiff.

The defenses were, a denial of plaintiff's claim of ownership of the land and affirmative...

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