25 Wis. 597 | Wis. | 1870
It is insisted by the counsel for the defendant that the contract sued upon is entire, and that the plaintiff had no cause of action until he had sawed the whole 800,000 feet, nr shown a legal excuse for nonperformance. The contract, it is said, created no separable parts or portions, upon which the consideration for sawing the lumber can be apportioned. This construction of the contract we consider unsound. According to the contract, the plaintiff agreed to saw 800,000 feet of lumber for the defendant as soon as it could be done with ordinary diligence after the logs were delivered to him at his mills by the defendant, for the sum of $2.50 per thousand, for which the defendant agreed to payas follows: “One'and seventy-five one-hundredths dollars per thousand feet to be paid before the lumber leaves the eddy below the mill, and the balance to be paid as soon as the lumber is sold in market.” In view of
By the Court. —The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.