Davis v. Foster

The respondent in March, 1896, entered into a contract with the Seatco Manufacturing Company, a corporation engaged in the sawmill business, by the terms of which he undertook to cut into' sawlogs and put into the Skookumchuck river certain saw timber .owned by the corporation, then standing upon lands owned by one Adolph Trailer, at prices named in the contract, based upon the length of the logs. He immediately entered upon the prosecution of the work, employing a number of men .as helpers, and by the 81st of August, 1896, had cut and put into the stream some 1,400,000 feet of logs. The…