Dees v. Self Bros.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Assumpsit. Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John T. Lackland.- Action by Self Brothers against J. R. Dees on the common counts for the price of timber. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals.
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Assumpsit. Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John T. Lackland.- Action by Self Brothers against J. R. Dees on the common counts for the price of timber. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. The bill of exceptions shows that the evidence tended to show that plaintiffs sold the defendant individually in June or July, 1907, all the pine timber standing and growing on a certain 120 acres of land in Monroe county at and for the price of $2.50 per 1,000 feet, said timber to be cut and removed as early as possible; that the defendant had cut and removed from said land…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
— This action was brought by the appellees against the appellant to recover for certain pine timber which, it is claimed, was sold to the defendant and received by him. The evidence of the plaintiffs tended to show that the timber was sold to the defendant individually, by a verbal contract, at so much per thousand feet, and that he got a certain amount; the evidence being that defendant bought all of the pine timber on a certain piece of land, but not showing whether what he got was all of said timber or not.
There was no error in sustaining the objection, by the plaintiffs, to the question…
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