Day, Gaskin & Co. v. Jeffords

The parties to this controversy entered into a contract of which the following is a copy.

“State of Georgia, Coffee County. This agreement entered into on the 23rd day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, between S. V. Jeffords of the County of Ware and State aforesaid, and Day, Gaskin & Co. of the County of Coffee and State aforesaid: The said S. V. Jeffords agrees to deliver on the logway at Day, Gaskin & Co.’s mill, near the 86 mile-post on -the B. & W. R. R., all of his sawmill timber that he bought from Hiram Sears Sr., that will measure one hundred and twenty-five feet to the tree…