Chapman v. Ingram
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Eau Claire County. Action for damages resulting from an alleged breach of contract on the part of defendants, in refusing to receive certain lumber sold them by the plaintiffs. The opinion states the case.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Eau Claire County. Action for damages resulting from an alleged breach of contract on the part of defendants, in refusing to receive certain lumber sold them by the plaintiffs. The opinion states the case. Finding for plaintiff, with judgment accordingly, from which the defendants appealed. contended, first, that the contract having been made at Eau Claire, and requiring the lumber to be delivered there, defendants had a right to the benefit of the Eau Claire market, and plaintiff could not select a market for them. The privilege of selling is merely to fix…
1Opinion of the CourtColb, J.
This is an action for damages brought against tbe defendants as buyers, for refusing to accept a certain quantity of lumber sold them by tbe plaintiff. Tbe complaint, as amended on tjie trial before tbe referee, in substance alleged that tbe parties entered into a contract in September, 1868, in and by which tbe defendants agreed to accept and receive all tbe lumber which should be manufactured for the plaintiff at tbe mill of *292one Esterbrook, at Eau Olaire, during tbe remainder of tbe sawing season of tbat year, so long as tbe defendants could run said lumber — they paying tberefor at tbe…
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