Wallace v. Curtiss

This was an action of covenant to deliver certain lumber, to be subject to inspection and measurement, by some competent inspector chosen by the parties. The whitewood portion of the lumber was to be inspected into two qualities as specified; the lumber to be delivered at the defendants’ lumber yard in Chicago, by the first day of July, 1861.

The defendants covenanted to receive the lumber and pay for it at the prices agreed upon. The covenant was dated April 10, 1861.

The plaintiff, sometime alter this date, in the month of April, 1861, delivered one cargo of lumber, which was inspected and…