Compton v. Hardin

SAYRE, J. Appellant sued appellee for the conversion of 500 wagon loads of light-wood. Appellee justified the taking of the Iightwood under a deed from appellant conveying “all the pine and poplar timber and trees of every kind and description, both standing and fallen,” upon the land from which appellee took the Iightwood. The grant of trees grants, of course, every part of the trees including their branches, and our judgment is that when appellee gathered up and hauled away the hearts of fallen pine trees and the branches thereof for use in firing the boiler of a portable sawmill, he carried away the property which appellant had *180 conveyed to the sawmill company (or its predecessor in title), and was not answerable to appellant therefor, and, these facts appearing without dispute, appellee was entitled to the general affirmative charge given by the court, upon appellee’s request in writing as provided by the statute. Other assignments of error need no special notice. The contentions presented by them proceed upon an interpretation of the deed different from that stated above or touch upon the measure of damages; the last, in view of the former, being immaterial. The judgment must be affirmed. Affirmed. ANDERSON, O. X, and GARDNER and MILLER, JJ., concur.