VICKSBURG HARDWOOD CO. v. REDDITT

No. 41900.

241 Miss. 330 (1961)

130 So.2d 848

VICKSBURG HARDWOOD CO., INC. v. REDDITT et ux.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 29, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dent, Ward, Martin & Terry, Vicksburg, for appellant.

Prewitt & Bullard, Vicksburg, for appellees.


McGEHEE, C.J.

The appellees T.J. Redditt and wife sued the appellant Vicksburg Hardwood Company to recover the statutory penalty for cutting and removing from appellees' land certain trees and for the actual value thereof, and also for damages in connection with other alleged trespasses.

The statutory penalty of $15 per tree is imposed by Section 1075, Code of 1942, as to trees of a particular species. According...

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