Canton Lumber Co. v. Liller
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (Phelps, J.) Plaintiffs ist Prayer. — The jury are instructed that if they find from the evidence the Canton Lumber' Company, the defendant, agreed to furnish to William A. Liller, the plaintiff, 409,943 feet of lumber for the erection of a coal tipple at Keyser, West Virginia; and if the jury further find that the Canton Lumber Company, the defendant, understood that all of said lumber was to be subject to B. & O. inspection; and if the…
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Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (Phelps, J.) Plaintiffs ist Prayer. — The jury are instructed that if they find from the evidence the Canton Lumber' Company, the defendant, agreed to furnish to William A. Liller, the plaintiff, 409,943 feet of lumber for the erection of a coal tipple at Keyser, West Virginia; and if the jury further find that the Canton Lumber Company, the defendant, understood that all of said lumber was to be subject to B. & O. inspection; and if the jury further find that the Canton Lumber Company, the defendant, did furnish said lumber and that said lumber so…
1Opinion of the CourtPearce, J.
This suit was brought to recover damages for an alleged breach of contract, The declaration alleges in substance that the defendant, the Canton Lumber Company of Baltimore City, agreed to sell and deliver to the plaintiff on or before July 1st, 1903, all the lumber necessary for the erection at Keyser, West Virginia, for the Baltimore and Ohio R. R. Co. of an ash pit, coal tipple and sand house, said lumber to conform to certain specifications set out in the declaration, and to be subject to B. & O. R. Co.’s inspection; the plaintiff to pay for same at the rate of $20 per thousand feet; but…
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