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GILLESPIE v. W. A. RANSOM LUMBER COMPANY

No. 15789.

234 F.2d 285 (1956)

William M. GILLESPIE, Sr., Appellant, v. W. A. RANSOM LUMBER COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 26, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Gordon Kean, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., Ben R. Downing, Jr., Sanders, Miller, Downing, Rubin & Kean, Baton Rouge, La., for appellant.

Victor A. Sachse, Baton Rouge, La., Edward J. Stoulig, Kenner, La., Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, La., Stoulig & Rogyom, Kenner, La., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and CAMERON, Circuit Judges.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The district court held that the appellee was not liable to the appellant for the conversion of cypress logs which the appellant claimed to own. The timber was grown on lands owned by the Natalbany Lumber Company in the Spanish Lake Swamp in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Natalbany sold the timber to W. D. Cann, Sr., who, in turn, on October 1, 1953, entered into a contract with appellant in its entirety as follows:

"This agreement entered...

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