Washington Manufacturing Co. v. Midland Lumber Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Clifford, J., entered April 23,1920, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for damages for breach of contract.
1Opinion of the CourtTolman, J.
On April 27, 1917, after Congress had declared a state of war to exist between this country and the German. Empire, appellant contracted to sell and deliver twenty car loads of clear fir lumber to respondent at certain specified prices. No definite time for the delivery was fixed, but it was agreed that appellant should ship as promptly as the items called for by the order could reasonably be produced from the logs coming into its mill to be cut. During the *594summer and fall following, the appellant delivered to respondent six of the twenty cars ordered. In December, 1917, the so-called lumber…
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