Hardeman-King Lumber Co. v. Hampton Bros.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, First District, in an appeal from Nacogdoches County. The lumber company sued Hampton Bros., and defendants, who asserted a counterclaim, had judgment against them. Plaintiffs appealed, and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Beowh
delivered the opinion of the court.-
The plaintiff in error, hereafter called “the company,” instituted this suit to recover from defendants in error $7,250 actual damages, accruing from the breach of a contract, whereby defendants agreed for a specified consideration to cut and deliver to the company at its sawmill all of the logs suitable for lumber growing on 640 acres of land and upon which contract the company had paid to Hampton Bros, the sum sued for as compensation for logs hauled. The contract provided that if Hampton Bros, failed to comply with the contract they should forfeit what…
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