Heidner v. St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.

— The plaintiff Heidner, a resident of Tacoma, in this state, and a citizen of the United States, commenced this action in the superior court for Pierce county, seeking recovery of damages for an alleged breach of a contract he claims to have entered into in his own behalf as principal with the defendant lumber company in December, 1915, for the purchase of 500,000 feet of lumber to he manufactured and de*653livered by the lumber company in about six months, “f. a. s. steamer or vessel Tacoma Harbor,” for shipment to F. A. Sohst at Hamburg, Germany, while the world war between Germany and other…