Diamond Lumber Co. v. Anderson

This is a bill of complaint filed to compel the specific performance of a contract. From a decree dismissing the bill of complaint the case is brought here by appeal. At the outset we cannot do better than quote freely from a carefully prepared written opinion filed by the chancellor before whom the case was tried. We quote:

“The plaintiff before and in 1919 was engaged in operating a large saw mill at Green Bay, Wisconsin, as well as in logging operations at a place called Camp Tolfree, on the White Pine branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, in Ontonagon county, Michigan. It…