Nelson v. Lawson

Citations

• 71 Miss. 819

Syllabus

<p>Statute or Frauds. Growing timber. Verbal «ale. Executed contract.</p> <p>A verbal contract for tlie sale of growing timber, though valid as to trees cut and paid for in execution of the contract, is void as to trees standing-on the land, though' all the purchase-money is paid, and if these are removed over the owner’s objection, he may maintain replevin for the timber into which they are converted. Ilarrell v. Miller, 35 Miss., 700.</p>