Elliott v. International Paper Co.

In the present case, International Paper Company (“IP”), entered into two contracts with other parties pursuant to which those parties were to supply raw material, i.e., harvested timber, needed by IP for the production by IP of plywood at its plywood-manufacturing plant in Butler County. The materials before us indicate that IP’s agents entered into these contracts in various counties other than Co-necuh County, and there is no evidence indicating that IP and Chapman Forest Products, Inc. — the respondents here — actually ever received any timber harvested in Conecuh County pursuant to these…