McKinley v. Tice

Plaintiffs contracted with the Tice Lumber Company, a copartnership, to cut into saw-logs all of the timber on a certain tract of land and to deliver the logs at the sawmill of the copartnership. They delivered, pursuant to the contract, 1,098,000 feet of logs for which there is now due them a balance of $1,451.76. The copartnership sawed the logs into lumber and sold the lumber, a part being purchased by the Nebraska Bridge Supply & Lumber Company and the remainder by the Coast Fir and Cedar Products Company, neither of which companies had any notice of plaintiffs’ claim. The lumber was sold…