Methudy v. Ross

This is an action for damages for breach of contract of sale of a lot of lumber. The cause was tried by the court without a jury, and the finding and judgment were for defendants.

The evidence showed that plaintiffs were lumber dealers in St. Louis; defendants were also lumber dealers, and one *102Leahey was a person engaged in logging. On September 6, 1879, Leahey owned a large quantity, altogether about two million six hundred thousand feet, of lumber, at Wausau, Wisconsin, of which a part was in logs in the river at that place, marked with Leahe3’s mark, and part dry lumber in piles. Defendants…