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RAYONIER, INCORPORATED v. BRYAN

No. 16480.

249 F.2d 405 (1957)

RAYONIER, INCORPORATED, E. W. Cone and Ed Jackson, Appellants, v. James C. BRYAN and William L. Bryan, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 18, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Scott, G. W. Botts, Jacksonville, Fla., Willard Ayres, Ocala, Fla., John S. Cox, Scott & Cox and Botts, Mahoney & Whitehead, Jacksonville, Fla., Greene, Ayres & Greene, Ocala, Fla., of counsel, for appellants.

Andrew G. Pattillo, Jr., William V. Chappell, Jr., Sturgis, Pattillo & Kynes, Chappell & Dunn, Ocala, Fla., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and TUTTLE and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought against W. L. Bounds, plaintiffs' grantee in a timber deed, and his assignee, Rayonier, Inc., and against E. W. Cone and Ed Jackson, as their servants or agents, the suit was for fire damages to timber and improvements on plaintiffs' lands.

The claim was that Ed Jackson, as agent or servant of E. W. Cone and of the other defendants, in the course of cutting the timber for them, negligently and unlawfully set out a fire and permitted...

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