Gulledge Bros. Lumber Co. v. Wenatchee Land Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $50,000 damages for breach of contract to sell standing timber.
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Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $50,000 damages for breach of contract to sell standing timber. The logging contract mentioned in the opinion required the parties of the second part, inter alia, to build a sawmill before May 1, 1903, with a capacity of cutting not less than 50,000 feet of timber per day; prior to November 1, 1903, to cut and remove from the land and manufacture into timber at least twelve million feet of logs and the same quantity annually thereafter; to pay $T,500 at the execution of the contract, receipt of which was acknowledged, and on November…
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
The complaint states that on October 13, 1902, appellant company executed and delivered to William T. Gulledge and Bichmond E. Gulledge a written contract, whereby they promised to sell and convey to them the merchantable timber standing upon certain lands in the state of Washington, purchased by appellant from the Northern Pacific Bailroad Company; that such contract was afterwards assigned to respondent, the Gulledge Brothers Lumber Company, a corporation; that ever since Eebruary 24, 1903, appellant has been wholly unable to convey a good title to the timber, for the reason that the same…
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- Gulledge Bros. Lumber Co. v. Wenatchee Land Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1913
- Gulledge Bros. Lumber Co. v. Wenatchee Land Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1911
- Gulledge Bros. Lumber Co. v. Wenatchee Land Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1914
- Gulledge Bros. Lumber Co. v. Wenatchee Land Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1912