Sage v. Brown

This is an action commenced in the court below by the appellants, to recover from the appellee a certain amount of money advanced by them to him on a lum*465ber contract, together with damages by them sustained by the breach of such contract.

The complaint alleges, in substance, that the plaintiffs and defendant, on the 28th day of April, 1867, made and entered into a written contract, by which the defendant agreed to-deliver to the plaintiffs, on or before the first day of October;, 1867, on the switch of the Peru and Indianapolis Railroad, atKokomo, one hundred thousand feet of sound poplar…