Litchfield v. Garratt
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit, where Coe Garratt and William H. Nelson, suing for the use and benefit of Thomas D. Dewey and John Stewart, recovered judgment against the plaintiff in error, in an action of assumpsit. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell J.:
Suit was brought in the Court below upon a written contract, whereby Garratt and Nelson agreed to cut, haul, mark and deliver in Flint River all the pine timber upon certain lands described therein. The provisions important to be considered were as follows: Not less than two millions
feet were to be delivered in 1858, and not less than four millions in each of the ensuing three years, and all was to be cut from the several lots of land in a specified order, one lot to be stripped before the next was touched. The price was to be two dollars per thousand feet, one dollar per thousand…
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