Shurtleff v. Udall

The plaintiffs seek to recover a balance claimed to be due from the defendant under a contract for the sale of certain pulp wood. Prior to the date of the contract they had owned jointly a farm in Walden which they had sold to one Robbins, taking a mortgage back for $2,000 to secure a part of the purchase money. By agreement between the plaintiffs and Robbins the latter was to cut from the farm and deliver on the cars 100 cords of peeled pulp for which he was to receive $20 per cord to apply on the mortgage, and the plaintiffs had the right to cut an additional 100 cords of pulp wood at an…