Bechard v. Amey

The defendant at the trial asserted and reasserted in various ways his position that the plaintiff’s rights were strictly limited by the terms of the written contract. This contention was the basis of exceptions to evidence, of motions for a nonsuit and a directed verdict, of requests to charge the jury and of the motion to set aside the verdict. A decision upon the fundamental question thus presented will therefore go far toward disposing of the numerous exceptions which appear in the recor’d.

The defendant contracted to pay the plaintiff for cutting and hauling the logs on a certain lot at…