Summary

Edward Douglass White Cissna v. Tennessee (242 U.S. 195…

The judgment of the supreme court of the state not only decreeed the lands to belong to the state of Tennessee in its sovereign capacity, on the ground that they were situated within that state, but gave a recovery for the amount of the timber cut before the bringing of the suit, and also for the money value of the balance of the timber on the lands which had been cut and removed as the result of the modification of the injunction, permitting that to be done.
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