Townsend v. Standard Industries, Inc.

According to any reasonable construction of the complaint in this case it alleges that the plaintiff and defendant entered into an oral contract whereby, for a stipulated amount, the appellee employed appellant to saw into lumber all of the logs from 800 acres of timberland. The complaint further alleges that at a later date the oral agreement was reduced to a written contract; that appellant performed part of the contract and had stood ready, willing and able to complete his part of the contract if he had been permitted to do so by appellee, but that appellee had breached his part of the…