Coast Fir Lumber Co. v. Parker

The defendants complain because the court permitted George E. Miller to testify as to *647the meaning of: “Terms regular,” and “when 60 days,” found in the instrument of November 24, 1919. In substance, the witness explained that the terms mentioned had respectively, according to general and uniform usage of the lumber trade, certain, definite and universally understood meanings, and that these meanings were as alleged in the complaint. Miller explained that in preparing contracts the word “regular” is sometimes used, at other times “90% advance” is employed, and sometimes the words “West Coast”…