Fisher v. Idaho Mining & Milling, Inc.

TAYLOR, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff (respondent) a former school teacher, had purchased a farm near Carlton, Oregon, about three years prior to the transaction here involved. He had employed loggers and logged off about 250,000 board feet of timber from the farm. Other than that he had never bought or sold timber. During September, 1958, he observed an advertisement in several issues of the *22Oregonian, published in Portland. One such ad, under date of September 14, 1958, in material part is as follows:

“Mining firm clearing ground to dredge has over 10 million feet 8" BHD to 30" BHD Lodgepole Pine…