Malone v. Gates

The parties to this suit entered into the following contract:

“St. Charles, Mich., Jan 6, 1887.

“This agreement, made this day by and between Malone Brothers, of Taymouth, Michigan, of the first part, and S. G-. M. Gates, of Bay City, Michigan, of the second part, witnesseth:

“ That said first parties hereby sell to S. G. M. Gates about five hundred thousand feet of dry and green pine, now on skids on the east, half of the south-west quarter of section 14, town 10, range 2 east, and the north-east quarter of section 11, township 10, range 1 east, except as hereinafter named, and deliver the same…