Bryant Lumber Co. v. Fourche River Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Second Division; Guy Fulk, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant and appellee are lumber corporations organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas. Appellant had its principal place of business at Fourche, and the appellee its principal place of business at Bigelow, in Perry County.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Second Division; Guy Fulk, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant and appellee are lumber corporations organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas. Appellant had its principal place of business at Fourche, and the appellee its principal place of business at Bigelow, in Perry County. Appellant instituted this suit against the appellee in the Perry Circuit Court to recover damages growing out of an alleged violation by the appellee of a written contract between appellant and appellee entered into on the 3d day of August, 1905. The complaint is based on…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts). It appears by the preamble to the contract under review that the appellee had already constructed a railroad across lands belonging to the appellant, and that there was a controversy between appellee and appellant as to whether or not the appellee had any authority to build this railroad, and it was recited that the controversy between the parties was detrimental to the' interests of each other, and that in order to settle the same in so far as it affected the future rights of any and all the parties and their successors as to the building, maintaining and…
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