Lane v. Pere Marquette Boom Co.

The plaintiff, in the year 1882, was engaged in logging certain pine timber owned by him on the Little South Branch of the Pere Marquette river. ' In the spring' he entered into a written contract with the Pere Marquette Boom Company, by which it agreed, for a certain price, 59 cents per thousand feet, to drive his logs to Ludington.

*66The contract provided, among other things, as follows:

“ Payments to be made as fast as logs are ready for delivery, before delivery, or logs will be stored at owner’s expense. Sworn weekly statements of the amount of logs sawed, of each and every mark, shall be…