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*1 OFFICE OF THE AmORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN

DepartsItwLt or A&riaulture kuaf in ( Texas

Gentlaaerl :

Thh will oakubml

Bareaber I1zi, 1040, ~qrrea

mut -abtiaug the popes

PlllnlJ wood or *t&T10a8 le aauant noOO8sa *2 :

-> -’ .599 or Agrioultoxe, Pago S p0gwfiment

that roar root wood ahould be IK) ;Paraoured but wood out In lengths or two fret, olxtoon inehea or ono foot bo maaewd by throwing euoh wood irro&ularly into a truok bod or box oontalnlag lM1 aubia toot, oon#idoring the amount or wood nooomrary to till gii trrr whon thrown irregularly into 8arm to .

"A 00x-d r00r r00t wood raaed and ~011 ra& oord or wood oan bo out into one ?oot longthm, it will probabl not maeuro more than 80 to 90 oubia :" ?oot whan cask et Md roll atowod. If tho on. 00x4.

0r row r00t wood ranked and ~011 8t0woa ir cut into two root longthr and throm irregularly into l trPOk bod or box oontainlw lee oubio foot, it will probably ?I11 tho truok hod or box hoapinq roll, while i? tho l mo 0014 o? wood 1~ out into ODe tOOti longthr and thrown irrogularl~ into a truok bob or box oontalningU8 oublo Soot, it will laak BOVOrrbl oubio root ?lll~ same. St 18 thorn- ton oloar to 606 that tho lon#h of wood and tho waf it la plaood in a pi10 aaker a lot o? diifor- MOO ln the amount or wood whloh a spa00 o? lS!W oub- lo r00t will oontaiU..*

Artiolo 5954 or Vernon*6 Annotated civil Btatutoa, a8 amndob, roads in part as iollowor

"Whonover anr aommodity 10 sold by the oord it rhall moan lee, oubia ioat, or tho OOntont8 o?

a epaoo eight foot long, ?our ?oet wide and four toot hi&. . . ."

It would bo diffioult indood to emwer hour quea- tion oategorioally. It la hi@ly improbable that any rUl0 o? thumb say now be #et forth will &do your depart- wnt in all 0r the many raot ilftuatlona it may ba ?aoed with.

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6tH.l Ar rtated in Broke v. State, 63 tex. Ur. B. 56, 204 8.W. 4301

*A 00x-d of wood Ia 'a rrasuxrmmt OS wood oontdniag 122 oublo feet.' 9 070. 977. IC 16 othervire 6rpresma a8 a pile 0r WOoa eight feet long, roar feet high, and r00r rota wia0, whioh vould atie, of eouraa, le8 oubl0 foot. II . The law a000 not roqulro that In order ~o’attoextaln a quentlt) of wood l,f a oar6 it #hall ba piled eight foot long,: ~,?our feet high, and iour ieet rid., but my

other mamrermt or pile that ooatalnr a full cord *ill be all that wae neoerrnry and woul6 be ru??iolent.@

It followe and you are adtired that tho only lo il l a amremmt @TOU br tho rtatater for the ac+t6mitkatlon 0 P whethelr any uonnt oon~titotor a 0024 is 0r 8 00-0ait vhether or not that oouodity WI 1 fill the oontontr a I rpaoo oontalniag 128 ~ublo foot. Xarofar as wood OF lag other oamodit7 1~8oaorrned the law I.8 rlleat a8 ts the length %nto whioh It rhoula be out to detemlno uhethor not there is a oord. Wor doea tho law Foqutro that rs;l pmtlmlax method b0 omployea, mob as plliag tbr matsrlal in cltaoka eight feet long, lour fret wide, and roux r60t high. hy mearurement 8ean1 (ror example, a wagon 80x1~ lug be employed if that in&xummitallt~ will m6&6m P rrrli 00~ 0r the 00mn0aitr.

Regardleslr of the lengths o? wood, when #old by the oord, the law will require that rtaakr or pilea be ~011 ranked an8 well stoweU, atherwioe, It oould not be 8earur6U. I?, ror example, the partksr oontraat <or a cord or wood out in lengthr or tvo feet the wood met when well ranked and &owed fill. to a reasonable de&ret, of oorttint7 a rptie~contain%ng 122 oublo ?eot, The sa8e will be truo If the oontr&ot 1~ ?o? wood out in four foot lengtha. Hones we sy that eroh oaae suet depend wp6n the term o? the Y”’ ment of the paHloa,a and oar@ muat br takeit todietU@tU faot aituationr suah arr ve hare mentioned iroa Wkl$uatlon where, for example,, a oord or four feet Iength woo6 lo bought mu rolu, the 6eller to out the tf00a ror the buyer into two toot lengths. mle we met Judicially r6Oo~lzO that a

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apartment cord wooa out in row r00t lengths till not meafmre a 00x4 when out into shorter lengths, in tha ease sug art06 the p&z-- tiee had by hypothesir oontraoted ror woom¶ o f wood in four root lengths to be out by the vendor into two foot lengths.

lo Oomplalnt ror false meaauremant could be predioatul upon ~0h ra0t6.

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APPIjPVEDJAN 7, 1941 u-u

ATTORNEY GENERAL 02 TSXAS