Supreme Court of Alabama December 18, 1913 (Pearce v. Aldrich Mining Co.)

lead-opinion

ANDERSON, J.

— The general rule is that when things, which in their natural state, form part of the freehold, are severed therefrom, and converted into chattels, they belong to the owner of the land. Mere changes in the form of things, so long as the identity of the material can be traced, will not work a change of ownership.