Nordstrom v. Diamond International Corp.

SWANSTROM, Judge.

Richard Nordstrom, a logging contractor, sued Diamond International Corporation to recover lost profits allegedly caused by a breach of written and oral contracts to log in the Coeur d’Alene National Forest. The district court ruled that Nordstrom failed to prove the existence of an oral agreement. The court found that while Diamond suspended Nordstrom’s log hauling for a time the suspension did not amount to a material breach which would allow Nordstrom to treat the written contracts as cancelled. The court denied any relief to Nordstrom and he has appealed. For reasons…