Nixon v. Webber-Riley Lumber Co.

PORTER, Justice.

Appellant, Webber-Riley Lumber Co., is a co-partnership. At the time involved in this case, such appellant was conducting a lumber yard in Mountain Home. Sidney W. Webber was one of the partners and manager of the lumber yard. Appellant lumber company had purchased the output of several sawmills operating in adjacent territory. The lumber company had two “contract haulers” hauling the lumber from the sawmills to its lumber yard. Such contract haulers had written contracts and were paid from $8.00 to $9.00 per thousand board feet, depending upon the distance the lumber was…