Taylor v. Butters & Peters Salt & Lumber Co.

On March 11, 1893, the plaintiff and defendant made a written contract, by which the plaintiff agreed to sell to the defendant, for its own consumption only, all the slabs, edgings, and pieces trimmed from the lumber which his mill might cut during the season of 1893; to deliver them, properly piled, on scows alongside its mill dock, at the point designated by it; and the defendant agreed to pay for the same 80 cents per cord. It was understood that they were to be measured upon the scows, and were to be piled thereon by the plaintiff in reasonable condition for measurement. Payments were to…