Harris & Mitchell v. Amoskeag Lumber Co.

Lumpkin, Justice.

This was an action by Harris & Mitchell against the Amoskeag Lumber Company for the price of the timber-on certain lots of land, which the plaintiffs claimed they had sold to the defendant and which the latter had cut and used. The declaration alleged that the contract of sale was in writing, evidenced by a correspondence which had taken place between the plaintiffs and the defendant. It is unnecessary to set out in full the letters constituting this correspondence. It is sufficient to say that those written by the defendant’s general manager unmistakably indicated a purpose…