Lackey v. Price

In the trial court the defendants here were the plaintiffs there, and they will be similarly referred to in this opinion.

In the spring of 1920 John A. Price, H. H. Lackey, T. W. Baxter, J. S. Wilson, J. W. Lenhart and W. A. Bess, calling themselves a building committee from Bess chapel, entered into an agreement with H. H. Lackey, who was at the time operating a saw mill, and himself one of the said building committee (though not a member of the church) for the purchase of 23,000 feet of lumber at $40.00 per thousand to be used in the construction of a church or chapel at some point not yet…