Wisconsin Sulphite Fibre Co. v. D. K. Jeffris Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Outa-gamie county: Jo it it Goodlaud, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover a balance claimed to be due upon a contract for the manufacture and sale by the defendant lumber company of a large quantity of lumber from logs-belonging to the plaintiff.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Outa-gamie county: Jo it it Goodlaud, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover a balance claimed to be due upon a contract for the manufacture and sale by the defendant lumber company of a large quantity of lumber from logs-belonging to the plaintiff. The contract was made in March,. 1896. At that time the plaintiff owned between 4,000,000- and 5,000,000 feet of pine saw logs which had been cut during the previous winter, the most of which were banked in Trap Lake near Monico Junction and a small portion at a railroad siding two miles north…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed March 19, 1907:
Winslow, T.
It is evident that there axe two important questions at the very foundation of this case, upon the correct solution of which the case must largely depend, namely: (1) The question how the quantity of logs upon which the defendant is to pay $5 per 1,000 is to be determined; and (2) the question how the amount of lumber actually manufactured and sold is to be determined.
The original agreement made no express provision as to the method of determining these questions. It is, however, quite certain that the first of these questioñs became a…
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