Barrett v. Grand Rapids Veneer Works
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent; Adsit, J. Assimpsit by Ervin E. Barrett against the Grand Rapids Veneer Works for the breach of a contract to stock plaintiff’s mill. From a judgment for defendant on verdict directed by the court, plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The trial court directed a verdict for the defendant in this cause, upon the ground that the damages claimed were speculative, and therefore not recoverable. The parties made a written contract, by which the plaintiff promised to erect a mill upon the defendant’s land, and manufacture the timber thereon into lumber and shingles, of good merchantable quality; defendant undertaking to provide the logs and bolts at the mill, and to pay certain prices, fixed by the contract, for the plaintiff’s services.
Counsel for the defendant insist that the case should be ruled by the case of Talcott v.…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Leonard v. BeaudryMichigan Supreme Court · 1888
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- Talcott v. CrippenMichigan Supreme Court · 1884
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