Evans v. Dudley Lumber Co.

This suit comes before us on an appeal from a judgment sustaining an exception of no' cause of action. The suit in which the judgment was rendered is one for damages for the breach of an alleged contract by which it is contended defendant purchased, or agreed to purchase, a number of hardwood logs, scaling 200,000 feet, with a leeway of 50,000 feet. The contract, it is alleged, was confected, in part, by correspondence between the parties, which is attached to the petition, and, in part, verbally. The main question presented by the exception, and the only one which we find it necessary to…