BOSWELL v. ROY O. MARTIN LUMBER CO., INC.

No. 61921.

363 So.2d 506 (1978)

Clifford BOSWELL v. ROY O. MARTIN LUMBER CO., INC.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

October 9, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy B. Tuck, Jr., Leesville, for plaintiff-applicant.

Charles S. Weems, III, Gold, Little, Simon, Weems & Bruser, Alexandria, for defendant-respondent.


SANDERS, Chief Justice.

This litigation involves damages for timber trespass.

Boswell, the plaintiff, sold Martin Lumber Company all hardwood, cypress, and pine trees eight inches and larger in diameter on his fifty-acre tract. During the term of the timber deed, the defendant injected thousands of trees ranging from two to twenty-two inches in diameter with a herbicide, killing them. The plaintiff sued, alleging...

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