COAKER v. CHURCHWELL

No. 40202.

229 Miss. 369 (1956)

90 So.2d 849

COAKER, et al. v. CHURCHWELL.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 3, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben Stevens and J.M. Byrd, Hattiesburg; L. Barrett Jones, Jackson, for appellants.

Ben H. Walley, Leakesville, for appellee.


LEE, J.

This suit involved a controversy over the title to approximately 4.75 acres of land, and the right to recover the actual value and the statutory penalty for the alleged wrongful cutting of timber thereon.

W.H. and A.L. Coaker, brothers, filed their bill of complaint against Gabe Churchwell. They alleged that they are the owners of this small acreage by adverse possession. They undertook to deraign their title...

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