82 So. 363 | La. | 1919
Plaintiff, as the owner of the pine timber on the W. y2 of the S. E. % of section 2, township 9 N. of range 4 W., sought and obtained an injunction to prevent defendant, the owner of the land, from cutting pine timber thereon, and from interfering with plaintiff in the cutting of said pine timber.
Defendant answered that he was the owner of the land and the timber standing thereon, and that the time limit granted plaintiff’s authors for removing said pine timber •had expired, and that the right of plaintiff to remove the timber had been prescribed by the lapse óf 10 years.
Defendant has appealed from a judgment rendered against him.
The recorded titles show that on November 23, 1905, ' Mrs. M. C. Lewis sold the land on • which this timber grows to J. E. Hunt, defendant, and that in the same deed conveying the land to him she reserved the timber on the land to herself, without any time limit being fixed within which she might cut and remove it.
■ On December 21, 1905, Mrs. Lewis sold the timber to the Louisiana Sawmill Company, the author of plaintiff’s title, with a limit of 6 shears within which to cut and remove it, and on April 28, 1911, Mrs. Lewis sold the timber on an adjoining E. y2 of the S. W. of section 2 to the Louisiana Sawmill Company, Limited, limiting the time to 6 years in which said timber should be removed. In this same deed Mrs. Lewis extended the time fqr removing the timber which she owned on the W. y2 of the section, which timber she had formerly sold to said Louisiana Sawmill Company.
The only question in this case is whether Mrs. Lewis had the right to grant in 1911 an extension of time within which to cut and remove the timber on the W. % of the section, or whether such extension of time should have been granted by the deiendant, who was at that time the owner of the land.
The judgment appealed from is affirmed.