Conant v. Arsenault
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Action of assumpsit to recover tbe amount due under a certain award. Defendant filed plea of not guilty. Verdict for plaintiff in the sum of one hundred and fifteen dollars. Defendant filed motion for new trial. Judgment in accordance with opinion. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, C. J.
On July 28, 1917, the plaintiff and defendants entered into a certain contract in writing, but not under seal, whereby the plaintiff sold to the defendants all the merchantable saw logs of soft wood and oak timber growing on a certain lot in East Livermore, “reserving the boughs, tops, bark, saw-dust and all slabs not used in firing the saw mill engine.” The defendants were given the right to enter upon the premises, cut the timber, install a portable saw mill and manufacture the lumber, under the terms and conditions specified in said agreement.
The fifth clause of the contract reads as…
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