Williams v. Crosby Lumber Co.

Faircloth, C. J.:

The plaintiff sues to collect a balance due him on contract with the defendant, and for damages for breach of the contract. The verbal contract was for “ large quantities of timber, growing and felled, ” on divers tracts of land on the Oheoah and Little Tennessee rivers and their tributaries. In bis complaint the plaintiff alleges that, andera contract with defendant, he “ cut and put a large quantity of logs into the Cheoah river in Graham county, for which labor the said company partly paid plaintiff from time to time, leaving a balance of $500 still due therefor, which sum…