Shore Lumber Co. v. American Lumber & Export Co.

1. The court did not err in overruling the demurrers to the amended petition. The contract on which .the suit was based, and which called for a definite number of “large” carloads of lumber of a certain kind and size at a specified price per thousand feet, was not too indefinite and uncertain to be. enforced, it appearing, as alleged in the plaintiff’s petition, that “a large carload of lumber, according to .the custom of the lumber business or trade,.means any available freight-car loaded to its fullest capacity, and is a term frequently used and so understood in the lumber business.”…