Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Heck

This was an action by the appellee against the appellant, upon contract. The complaint was in two paragraphs, not materially unlike. It alleged, in substance, that an agreement was entered into between the plaintiff and the defendant, by which the plaintiff was to furnish, cut, haul, and pile along the line of the defendant’s railroad a quantity of firewood, which the defendant was to measure, receive, and pay the plaintiff for, at a specified rate per cord; that, in pursuance of the contract, the plaintiff did furnish, cut, haul, and pile along the line of the defendant’s road a large…