Sutherland v. Wampler
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Dickenson county in an action of covenant. Judgment for the defendant. Plaintiffs assign error.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
This action of covenant was brought by J. E. L. and W. T. Sutherland, owners of a saw mill, to recover of C. A. Wampler $800, damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of the defendant’s breach of a contract to saw into lumber certain timber trees owned by him. To a judgment for the defendant this writ of error was granted.
It is plain from the evidence that the contracting parties were extremely lax in their business methods, and that the stipulations of the contract were not rigidly insisted on and were performed in a slovenly, loose way on both sides. It was aptly characterized in…
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