Intermountain Forest Management, Inc. v. LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORP.

TROUT, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the district judge’s grant of summary judgment denying the existence of a logging contract between Idaho Forest Management (“IFM”) and Louisiana Pacific Corp. (“L-P”).

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FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On October 3, 1997, IFM brought suit against L-P for breach of a logging contract. IFM alleges it entered into a logging contract with L-P in September 1996 to log 6,000 tons of green saw logs. IFM alleges L-P repudiated the contract costing IFM $32,000 in lost profits. L-P denied the existence of the contract on the grounds that it had never executed…