Phippen v. Morehouse

Plaintiffs by written contract purchased of defendant, for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, all the pine trees and timber standing and growing on 160 acres of land in Mecosta county, which would make sound and merchantable saw logs, same to be selected from sound thrifty pine, free from butt shakes and ring rots, and to scale, by Doyle’s standard scale, not less than 12 inches in diameter at the small end, deductions to be made on crooked logs sufficient to make them straight. The estimated amount of logs on the lot was 465,000 feet. Plaintiffs were to cut all the nine on the lot suitable…