Langstaff-Orm Manufacturing Co. v. Wilford

Opinion of the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner

Reversing.

Defendant, Langstaff-Qrm Manufacturing Company, purchased of one Bradford a quantity of cypress timber. At the same time it .contracted with plaintiff, J. L. Wilford, to haul, cut and load the timber on board the cars of the Illinois Central Railroad Company at Crice’s Spur, and agreed to pay plaintiff at the rate of $5 a thousand feet. Plaintiff shipped to defendant about 22,600 feet of lumber. Defendant declined to pay plaintiff for the lumber so shipped, and claimed that plaintiff had violated the contract, and refused to…