Waldo Lumber Co. v. Metcalf

Action of assumpsit on account annexed with omnibus count attached. The plea is the general issue with a brief statement of special matters of defense. The case is reported for determination upon so much of the evidence as is legally admissible.

The action grows out of a hardwood lumber deal in which the plaintiff, the Waldo Lumber Company, a corporation having its principal place of business at Bangor, Maine, and Ered Wilkins, administrator of the estate of George W. Staples, formerly of Temple, Maine, were involved. In the summer and fall of 1928, Daniel E. Adams, a salesman for the Waldo…