TWIN STATES LAND & TIMBER CO. v. CHAPMAN

No. 1998-CA-01191-COA.

750 So.2d 567 (1999)

TWIN STATES LAND & TIMBER COMPANY, INC., Appellant, v. Glen CHAPMAN and John Alex Thornhill, Appellees. Glen Chapman, Appellant, v. John Alex Thornhill, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied January 25, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter T. Rogers, Meridian, Attorney for Appellant.

John E. Howell, Henry Palmer, Meridian, Attorneys for Appellees.

BEFORE McMILLIN, C.J., MOORE, AND THOMAS, JJ.


McMILLIN, C.J., for the Court:

¶ 1. This case involves a dispute between the owner of a remainder interest in a tract of real property and the life tenant. The dispute is over the life tenant's authority to cut and remove timber from the tract without the consent of the remainderman. The remainderman also sought to impose liability against the timber company harvesting the timber under contract with the life tenant. The underlying issue on which the case turns...

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