Stephens v. Kellogg Lumber Co.

Defendant owned hardwood timber in the parish of Red River and contracted with one J. P. Jones to cut and haul same to Crichton station on the railroad for a certain price per thousand feet, log scale. Something in excess of 300,000 feet was so hauled and delivered by Jones. While he was engaged in this work, he purchased from plaintiff supplies, etc., to enable him to fulfill his contract with defendant. In the early part of the year 1930, while the logs, or a goodly part of them, were at Crichton, plaintiff, becoming disturbed over the prospect of the logs being shipped away before the…