O'Connell v. Ward
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Lake county by the partners doing business under the firm name of Wick O’Connell & Co. against Michael Ward and Munroe, Boyce & Co. to recover $27,814 for a balance due upon a logging contract. The case was tried before Besler, J., and a jury which returned a verdict for $29,793. From an order denying their motion for a new trial, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
This action, so far as material to this appeal, is brought to recover a balance due on a logging .contract made in September, 1910, ¿s modified by a later contract made in December, 1911, by which plaintiffs agreed to .cut certain timber and deliver the logs into Mountain Iron lake. By a third contract plaintiffs agreed, for 60 cents a thousand, to drive the logs from Mountain Iron lake into Basswood *445lake. ' From there they were conveyed by other parties to the mill where they were sawed.
The original logging contract provided for the cutting within three years of the timber standing upon…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Beaubien v. CicotteMichigan Supreme Court · 1864
- T. R. Foley Co. v. McKinleySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1911
- Sandretto v. WahlstenSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1914
- Blocher v. Mayer Bros.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1914
- Smith v. Standard Life & Accident InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1900
3Cited by10 opinions
- Donnay v. BoulwareSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1966
- Wick v. MurphySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1952
- Carroll v. PrattSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1956
- Steller v. ThomasSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1950
- Wilkens v. Western States Grocery Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1941
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