Carson v. Lumber Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2007
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
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“"We are satisfied, after a careful examination of all the evidence In the record, a reasonable time within which the grantees and their assigns could remove the timber covered by tbe contract bad not expired when the present, bill was filed. It is estimated that in 1893 there was standing on the land from 16,000,000 to 18,000,000 feet of timber. The land, or the greater part of it, was low and swampy, and subject to overflow from the Mississippi river. At the time of the making of the contract, and until their sale in 1896 to Fitzhugh, Hull and Polhemus looked alone to periodic overflows to float out the logs they cut. In the winter of 1893-94 they succeeded in getting out about 1,000,000 feet, and, in anticipation of having another overflow, they had cut additionally 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 feet, but were not able to get it out on account of its failure. Mr. Hull says this timber was lost to his firm, and lying on the ground, worm-eaten and worthless, when they made their sale in 1890. The evidence shows that to haul this timber to the Mississippi river would have entailed a heavy loss to these parties, and at the time they were operating floating logs in an. overflow was regarded as the only feasible plan of getting them to market. Since then tramways and steel roads for that purpose have come into use. In 1898 the Three States Lumber Company contracted with their codefendant Peck to erect a sawmill near the land, and cut the trees remaining on it, and convert them into lumb”
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