Morris v. CORCORAN PULPWOOD COMPANY

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict after a motion for new trial was denied.

The controversy involves a dispute as to the amount to which the plaintiff ivas entitled under a logging contract. In May 1966, Plaintiff Rowland M. Morris entered into an oral contract with defendant, Corcoran Pulpwood Company, Inc., a Montana corporation (hereinafter referred to as Corcoran), to harvest a stand of lodgepole pine timber which had been purchased by Northern Timber Company of Deer Lodge from the Mount Haggin ranch. The timber stand produced two types of merchantable timber, saw…