Dieck v. Oconto Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Oconto county: W. B. Quinlan, Circuit Judge. The defendant owns and operates a sawmill and wholesale lumber yard at Oconto, Wisconsin, and is the owner of á large quantity] of standing timber, in Oconto and Forest counties.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Oconto county: W. B. Quinlan, Circuit Judge. The defendant owns and operates a sawmill and wholesale lumber yard at Oconto, Wisconsin, and is the owner of á large quantity] of standing timber, in Oconto and Forest counties. Its mill at Oconto is supplied largely from this timber, some of which is cut and logged by the defendant itself, while other parts of it are logged under contract with third parties, which áre known as jobbing contracts. Oh September 9,1912, the Oconto'Company, the defendant, entered into one of these contracts with Glynn &…
1Opinion of the CourtOwen, J.
Evidence offered by the plaintiff was admitted to prove oral conversations occurring between the plaintiff and the defendant prior to the time of the assignment of the contract by Glynn & Bryce to Herman Dieck, which plaintiff contends amounted to a contract on the part of the Oconto Company to furnish the cars for the loading of the logs. This evidence was objected to by the defendant, and its reception is assigned as error, because the original contract between the defendant and Glynn & Bryce is “an agreement that by its terms is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof,”…
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