Hahn v. Fredericks

Fredericks sued the Hahns to recover the price of certain wood, which was destroyed by fire before it had been removed by the purchasers. The only question is whether the sale had been completed and the title passed before the fire.

The wood bargained for was two hundred cords of hard wood out of a pile of between three hundred and fifty and four hundred cords, in which was a small amount of soft wood, not piled by itself, but scattered through the other wood. It was all piled in tiers upon Portage Lake, the six rows nearest the lake containing by original measurement about two hundred and one…