Winslow v. Mell

This is an action for damages arising out of an alleged breach of an oral contract to log timber.

At the trial of the cause, plaintiff Winslow testified that defendant E. J. Mell (who will be referred to herein as though he were the sole defendant) agreed to finance plaintiff’s logging operation, including the cost of necessary logging equipment, and that the agreement contemplated logging two hundred acres of timberland owned by the defendant in Pacific county. He further testified that the Crown Zellerbach Corporation owned an adjoining tract, containing an estimated one and one half million…