Sorensen v. Jacobson

MR. JUSTICE BOTTOMLY:

Action for conversion of saw logs and for cost of building logging road. The jury’s verdict was for defendant. Plaintiffs’ motion for new trial was denied and they here appeal from the judgment entered.

Defendant owned rough timber lands upon which was growing timber from which lumber could be manufactured. In October 1946, he entered into a parol agreement with plaintiffs granting them the right to enter his timber lands and to cut and remove therefrom the marketable timber for which plaintiffs were to pay $4.00 per thousand board feet. Plaintiffs immediately began the…