Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. v. Williams
Oregon Supreme Court
From Lane: George F. Skipworth, Judge. Department 2. This is an action to recover a balance stipulated to be due and to recover tbe agreed purchase price of certain wood under the terms of a contract. The cause was tried before the court and a jury and a verdict rendered in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $2,170.83. From a resulting judgment defendant appeals.
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From Lane: George F. Skipworth, Judge. Department 2. This is an action to recover a balance stipulated to be due and to recover tbe agreed purchase price of certain wood under the terms of a contract. The cause was tried before the court and a jury and a verdict rendered in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $2,170.83. From a resulting judgment defendant appeals. The contract relates to transactions between plaintiff and defendant in the wood business and covers a period from April 30,1915, to September 30, 1916. It stipulates that on April 30, 1915, on account of prior transactions, there was…
1Opinion of the CourtBean, J.
The bill of exceptions discloses that plaintiff, upon the trial of the cause, introduced evidence tending to support the allegations of the complaint. Error is predicated upon the following rulings upon the evidence: Mr. Williams, the defendant, as a witness in his own behalf, having stated that he saw the cars of wood shipped to him by plaintiff was interrogated as follows: “Q. Describe to the jury the sort of cars they were loaded on and how they came in?” Objection was made to the question by counsel for plaintiff as incompetent and not within the issues, and for the additional reason that…
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