McCord v. Edward Hines Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. Vihjb, Circuit Judge. In October, 1899, tbe plaintiff and a corporation of wbicb be was president, tbe McCord Lumber Company, owned and controlled a very large amount of timber tributary to Superior, and bad made a general logging contract with tbe Bayfield & Western Railway Company, whereby tbe latter, through a series of years, was to cut, log, and haul tbe logs to tbe booms of tbe plaintiff tributary to…
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. Vihjb, Circuit Judge. In October, 1899, tbe plaintiff and a corporation of wbicb be was president, tbe McCord Lumber Company, owned and controlled a very large amount of timber tributary to Superior, and bad made a general logging contract with tbe Bayfield & Western Railway Company, whereby tbe latter, through a series of years, was to cut, log, and haul tbe logs to tbe booms of tbe plaintiff tributary to bis sawmill at Superior. logging operations bad already commenced, largely through tbe medium of subcontractors, who…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed January 31, 1905:
Dodge, J.
The jury having returned a verdict for plaintiff, judgment for defendant can be justified only if the evidence conclusively establishes that the defendant’s promise was to answer for the debt or default of another, which, by subd. 2, sec. 2307, Stats. 1898, is void if not in writing. This provision comes to us from the original statute of *512frauds, 29 Oar. II, of wbicli it bas been said by an enthusiast that every line was worth a subsidy, and by a cynic that every line has cost a subsidy to interpret. The latter statement has been…
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