Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills v. United States

Plaintiff and defendant entered into two written contracts in the spring of 1940. The contracts provided that plaintiff should cut and remove certain growing timber and pay *742for same at specified prices. One of tlie contracts covered an area of about 14 acres and the other about 80 acres.

The sale contracts contained provisions, recited in our finding 6, requiring the plantiff to burn such of the slash resulting from the cutting of the timber as the forest supervisor might require, at such times and in such manner as the forest officer in charge might specify. They also required plaintiff to…