Pacific Mill Co. v. Inman
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Alfred F. Sears, Jr., Judge. Statement by Mk. Justice Bean. This is an action by the Pacific Mill Co. against Bobert Inman and others, a corporation, to recover damages for a breach of a contract. The plaintiff is a Hawaiian corporation organized in 1900, with a capital stock of $12,000, and with power to increase the same to $50,000. The defendant is an Oregon corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling lumber.
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From Multnomah: Alfred F. Sears, Jr., Judge. Statement by Mk. Justice Bean. This is an action by the Pacific Mill Co. against Bobert Inman and others, a corporation, to recover damages for a breach of a contract. The plaintiff is a Hawaiian corporation organized in 1900, with a capital stock of $12,000, and with power to increase the same to $50,000. The defendant is an Oregon corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling lumber. In the spring of 1901, plaintiff, desiring to enlarge its business and to embark in the lumber trade, obtained from a local railway company an…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
From the bill of exceptions it appears that “the plaintiff introduced evidence tending to prove all the allegations of its complaint,” unless the fact that it had collected on the new subscriptions to its capital stock but $5,500 in September, $187.50 in October, $&,437.'50 in November, and $4,875 in December, 1901, shows such a failure to comply with the contract as authorized the defendant to repudiate it, and required the court to grant the motion for nonsuit.
There, may be substantially three kinds of covenants or promises in a contract: first, such as are independent of each other;…
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