Hunting Rights Class Action Filed Against Weyerhaeuser Company

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The Cullars Family Timber Farm, Prater Family Partnership and others have filed a class action against Weyerhaeuser Company alleging the forest products outfit illegally subleased the hunting rights of certain properties, which resulted in the defendants collecting revenues to which they are not entitled. The suit argues these revenues should be divided among the proposed class members.

Through the merger of Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. and Plum Creek Timberlands, L.P., the defendant became the successor in interest to a lease agreement and timber purchase contract involving real estate in Georgia. According to the complaint, the timber leases, which involved other entities and persons prior to the merger, do not contain any language that allows Weyehaeuser “to sublease to other individuals and entities the hunting rights on the properties subject to the timber leases.”

The proposed class includes entities and persons “who have leased properties owned or controlled by them to Weyerhaeuser or its Predecessors in Interest and which timber leases do not contain language which authorized Weyerhauser and/or its said Predecessors in Interest to sublease hunting rights to other individuals and entities and which revenue from said sublease of hunting rights have not been paid to the class.”