Gregory v. . Bullock
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil aotioN, to recover, the value of cross ties, tried before Molver, J., at July Term, 1896, of G-baNville Superior Court, before Molver, J., and a jury. There was a verdict agaiust the defendants, and from a judgment thereon plaintiff defendant, Bullock, appealed. The facts appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
FaiRcloth, C. J.:
On December 28, 1894, the plaintiff w rote to defendant, Bullock, “I would like to sell you some pine and oak timber and all the railroad cross ties on my children’s (Stovall) land.” On January 1, 1895, the defendant replied, ‘‘When Mr. Smith is ready to cut ties, if you can agree between you as to price, no doubt I can arrange the payment of the money satisfactory to you. As to old field pine, if you are willing to take the price I have been paying (50 cents per 1.000) I could put a man in it that would cut it, and it would bring you more than oak, growing so thick on an…
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