Thompson v. Graham
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 188, Jan. T., 1913, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P, Clearfield Co., Sept. T., 1911, No. 309, of nonsuit in case of James L. Thompson v. Alfred Graham. Assumpsit for breach of an oral contract. Before Smith, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The court entered judgment of nonsuit, which it subsequently refused to take off. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was refusal to take off nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
The action was for recovery of damagés for breach of an alleged verbal contract made in August, 1907, which it is claimed gave to the plaintiff the right to cut, stock, saw, haul and deliver ties, mine ties, lath, slats and tim*204ber from a certain tract of timber land, to the defendant’s use, at a certain schedule of rates governing each of the different kinds of labor required; and the breach of a certain other verbal contract made September, 1908, collateral to the one above mentioned. One of the defenses set up, and the only one calling for consideration here,…
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