Singer Manufacturing Co. v. W. D. Reeves Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Phillips Circuit Court; Hanc$ N. Hutton, Judge; The burden of proof was on the Reeves Lumber .Company to show its profits. 85 Wis. 174; 4 Ency. of Ev. 5; 123 S. W. 1034; hi Fed. 98; 49 C. C. A. 244; 6 S. W. 765; 5 R. E 299; 73 Am. Dec. 66; 26 Minn. 252; 2 N. W. 849; 25 Ga. 386; 79 Ga. 743; 8 S. F. 58; 45 111. 206; 26 111. App. 580; 38 N. Y. Super. Ct. 185; 44 Md. 268; 6 Bing. N. C. 212; 61 S. W. 273; 67 Mich. 454; 6 Minn. 319; 112 Ala. 436; 90 Mo.
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Appeal from Phillips Circuit Court; Hanc$ N. Hutton, Judge; The burden of proof was on the Reeves Lumber .Company to show its profits. 85 Wis. 174; 4 Ency. of Ev. 5; 123 S. W. 1034; hi Fed. 98; 49 C. C. A. 244; 6 S. W. 765; 5 R. E 299; 73 Am. Dec. 66; 26 Minn. 252; 2 N. W. 849; 25 Ga. 386; 79 Ga. 743; 8 S. F. 58; 45 111. 206; 26 111. App. 580; 38 N. Y. Super. Ct. 185; 44 Md. 268; 6 Bing. N. C. 212; 61 S. W. 273; 67 Mich. 454; 6 Minn. 319; 112 Ala. 436; 90 Mo. App. 518; 3 S. W. 689. The loss of profits is the damages recoverable. 116 Fed. 604; 130 Fed. 641; no U. S. 347; *53 U. S. 540; 75 U.…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
This was a suit upon a written contract by appellee against appellant to recover damages for an alleged breach thereof in failing to deliver a certain quantity of logs to be sawed into lumber. Both parties to the suit are corporations, and the contract in question was executed on the 24th day of February, 1908.
By the terms of the contract, appellant agreed to furnish to appellee about four million feet of gum logs to be sawed into lumber at a fixed price per thousand feet. After supplying appellee with 2,176,322 feet of saw logs, which appellee manufactured into lumber according to the terms…
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