Spalding v. Archibald

[Replevin for eleven hundred cedar telegraph poles.

The plaintiff in the years 1880 and 1881 was engaged in the business of getting out ties, posts and telegraph poles from lands belonging to himself and others in the vicinity of Spalding in Menominee county. The poles in question were cut in the winter of 1880-81, and as plaintiff claimed were delivered to him by one Leon Lacroix under a verbal contract whereby Lacroix had engaged to cut poles for plaintiff on lands owned by him on section six in township thirty-eight north of range twenty-six west. The poles, however, were not all cut on…