Groce v. West Lumber Co.

The West Lumber Company brought this suit against J. W. Groce and R. B. Eglin, partners, composing the firm of Groce & Eglin, alleging that on the 10th day of June, 1910, plaintiff and defendants entered into a verbal agreement by the terms of which the defendants were to purchase certain timber standing and growing on plaintiff’s land in Polk county out of which defendants desired to manufacture stave bolts, and that it was then agreed that the verbal agreement should later be reduced to writing and executed by the parties as under the date the verbal agreement was entered into; that…