Wilson v. Crowell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Clinton county. This was an action of covenant brought by Amalous Gr. Crowell against James Wilson, to recover damages for the breach of an agreement for the sale of certain leasehold premises on the West Branch Canal near Lock Haven, with a saw-mill, barn, house, railroad, and other improvements, to be paid for in sawing lumber at three dollars per thousand feet.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Clinton county. This was an action of covenant brought by Amalous Gr. Crowell against James Wilson, to recover damages for the breach of an agreement for the sale of certain leasehold premises on the West Branch Canal near Lock Haven, with a saw-mill, barn, house, railroad, and other improvements, to be paid for in sawing lumber at three dollars per thousand feet. The agreement was in these words :— “This article of agreement, made and concluded, this the 20th day of March 1858, between Amalous Q-. Crowell, of Woodward township, Clinton county, Pennsylvania, of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Read, J.
— The error committed by the court below on the trial of this cause, arose from a misconstruction of the article of agreement, of the 20th March 1858, by which the plaintiff sold to the defendant a certain lease and a large steam saw-mill, situated on the leased property, with all the buildings and improvements, as the same then stood, with all the fixtures, tools, and personal and movable property connected with or belonging to, in or about the entire establishment, for the sum of §20,000. This sum was to be paid in the following manner:…
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