Pacific Lumber Co. v. Prescott

This is an action to recover the sum of $788.74. It is alleged in the complaint that on December 1, 1896, John Gruber, as receiver of the Capital Lumbering Company, a corporation, entered into a contract with R. D. Jones whereby he sold to the latter a quantity of lumber, supposed to contain about 1,000,-000 feet, and known as “merchantable and better quality,” then near Winlock, Washington, for the sum of $3.60 per thousand, on account of which $500 was then to be. advanced, and a like sum to be paid on the first of each month thereafter until the value thereof was fully paid, and Jones was…