Lacy v. Wilson

This case involves the right to certain lumber, which plaintiff claims to have purchased of John and George McLean. The defendant had previously, it. appears, bought the same lumber of the McLeans, but his purchase was made on Sunday, and is not now relied upon. In his purchase, a board bill he had against the McLeans, amounting, as he claims, to feisty dollars, was to be applied in payment; but on their declining to adhere to the bargain, defendant testifies that they agreed he should retain the lumber, — which *480was then in .his possession, — as security for his demand. The plaintiff, when he…