Hunter v. New York & Saginaw Solar Salt Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Case made for review upon the law and the facts from Saginaw Circuit. This was an action of assumpsit brought to recover damages for the failure, by the defendant, to furnish certain lumber for shipment, as fast as the plaintiffs could remove it.
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Case made for review upon the law and the facts from Saginaw Circuit. This was an action of assumpsit brought to recover damages for the failure, by the defendant, to furnish certain lumber for shipment, as fast as the plaintiffs could remove it. The declaration contained a special count, setting forth, that by the default of the defendant in not furnishing lumber for shipment, according to the terms of the contract, the plaintiffs suffered damage by reason of tlieir scows remaining unemployed, and in the loss of time of the men engaged for that purpose. It was admitted by tlie plaintiffs…
1Opinion of the Court
Christian cy J.
This is a case made after judgment in the Circuit Court for the county of Saginaw, for review upon the law and the facts.
The defendant had, on the fourth day of January, 18G4, entered into two separate contracts, one with Babcock and Bliss for the sawing and delivery to the defendant of two million feet of pine lumber, the contractors (B. & B.) to commence the delivery of the lumber at the starting of their saw mill in the spring of 1864, and to have all said lumber sawed and delivered on or before the first of October, 1864; the lumber to be delivered on the scows of the…
2Cited by15 opinions
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