Paxport Mills, Inc. v. Stohr

Plaintiff seeks in this action to rescind a contract by which it purchased from defendants the timber growing upon an eighty-acre tract of land in a rather inaccessible area of Mason county.

The basis of the suit is the claim by plaintiff that defendants pointed out to plaintiff’s timber buyer a blazed line of trees as the south boundary of the tract, and that plaintiff purchased the timber relying on the blazed line as representing the true south boundary. Plaintiff further asserts that the true south boundary of the tract was, in fact, one hundred forty-nine feet north of the fine pointed…