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CUMMER-GRAHAM CO. v. MADDOX

No. A-5321.

285 S.W.2d 932 (1956)

CUMMER-GRAHAM CO., Petitioner, v. W. A. MADDOX et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

January 18, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. F. Edwards, Clarksville, O. B. Fisher, Paris, for petitioner.

Austin Guest, Clarksville, Hardy Moore, Paris, for respondents.

CULVER, Justice.

The question here concerns the measure of damages to be allowed the landowner for standing timber cut and sawed into lumber by one who honestly believed he had a right to so do.

The trial court rendered judgment for the landowner based on stumpage value or in other words the market value of the standing timber at the time it was cut. The Court of Civil Appeals reversed and rendered, holding that...

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