Williams v. McGraw

Plaintiff sued defendant for commissions on a sale of logs, the sum claimed being 25 cents a thousand on between 11 and 12 million feet. The court below, allowing recovery for some other causes of action,0ruled that there could be no recovery for this, which must have been on the ground that there was no testimony to support it.

Defendant, who lives at Poughkeepsie, New York, owned the logs in question, some cut and some not then-cut, on Rifle river. January 7, 1881, defendant wrote a letter to *482plaintiff, in which, after describing the property, he says: “I would sell them for $8, or if you…