Mahan v. Clark

Citations

• 219 Pa. 229
• 68 A. 667
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 550

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Sale of timber — Expiration of time limit — Title to timber cut down.</p> <p>Where an owner of land sells all the timber thereon, and grants to the vendee the right to cut and remove the timber with the “privilege of five years ” for the completion of the operation, and the vendee cuts down all the timber, and manufactures it into saw logs, telephone poles and railroad ties prior to the expiration of the five years, but does not remove the manufactured product from the land before that date, although he has paid for it in full, the title to the timber thus cut and manufactured is in the vendee as personal property, and the vendor has no interest in it whatever.</p>