Mealey v. Bemidji Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action, in the district court for Hennepin county to. recover '$5,811.38 damages occasioned through interference with plaintiff’s contractor.
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Action, in the district court for Hennepin county to. recover '$5,811.38 damages occasioned through interference with plaintiff’s contractor. As a counterclaim the answer alleged that prior to March 31, 1908, plaintiff failed to bank and deliver at Haupt 34,710 feet of white pine logs and 26,781 feet of spruce logs, standing, lying or being upon the premises on November 16, 1907, as he had promised to do, and that defendant thereby sustained damages in the sum of $100. The reply was a general denial. The case was tried before Steele, J., and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of…
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
This action was-brought to recover damages resulting to plaintiff from the defendant’s wrongful interference with plaintiff’s contractor. The trial resulted in a verdict for plaintiff, and the court having denied defendant’s request for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, and also a new trial on plaintiff’s-consent to a reduction of the verdict, the defendant appeals.
Plaintiff in 1907 owned one hundred sixty acres of land near Haupt, in this state, upon which was considerable timber fit for saw logs and pulp wood. On August 22, 1907, he made a contract with one Ashcraft to cut, skid, haul,…
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