Northcraft v. Blumauer
Northcraft v. Blumauer
Opinion of the Court
Action by Charlotte Northcraft, in person and as guardian of Philip D. Northcraft, a minor, against I. Blumauer and the Blumauer Logging Company, a corporation, to enjoin the defendants from cutting and removing timber from certain land belonging to the plaintiffs, and to recover damages for timber already taken. From a final decree granting an injunction and awarding damages, the defendants have appealed.
Appellants insist that the trial court erred in denying their motion for nonsuit, and in entering judgment in favor of the respondents. The evidence shows that the respondents owned certain land in Thurston county upon a portion of which was a lot of growing timber which the respondent Charlotte
The appellant I. Blumauer contends that he purchased the entire body of timber without regard to the number of feet involved or any fixed price per thousand, but we do not find that this contention is sustained by- the preponderance of the evidence. The evidence further shows that, after a large portion of the timber had been removed, Mr. Yantis learned the correct boundary lines and discovered his mistake in making the cruise; that, from a subsequent cruise made by other parties employed by the respondents, it was ascertained that there had been a much larger quantity of timber upon the land; that thereupon Mr. Yantis directed the attention óf the appellants to the mistake he had made, stated that it had entered into the contract of sale, and insisted that appellants should compensate respondents therefor; • that they declined to do so; that he afterwards called the attention of respondents to the mistake, whereupon they, alleging mutual mistake, brought this action to rescind the contract, to enjoin the further removal of the timber, and to recover the value of that already taken.
The controlling issues before us are, whether, at the time the sale of the timber was made to the appellants by the re
Hadley, C. J., Mount, Dunbar, Rudkin, Root, and Fullerton, JJ., concur.
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- Charlotte Northcraft v. I. Blumauer
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- Contracts — Sales—Rescission—Mutual Mistake — Relief — Injunction — Damages. Where a sale of standing timber was made upon the basis of a cruise by one Y. at one dollar per thousand feet, and after part of the same was removed, Y. discovered that he had made a mistake in the boundary lines, thereby omitting a large quantity of the timber, and notified the purchasers to make good therefor to the vendor, which they refused to do, the vendor is entitled to an injunction restraining further removal of the timber and for damages for the timber taken.