Heybrook v. Beard

Citations

• 75 Wash. 646
• 135 P. 626
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 2259

Syllabus

<p>Logs and Logging — Sale or Standing Timber — Contract—Title, When Passes. A contract, drawn with legal nicety, whereby the owner of land sold and transferred the standing timber, with right of removal for seven years, at the expiration of which time uncut timber was to “revert” to the grantor, passes a present title to the timber.</p> <p>Same — Contracts—Construction—Time eor Payment. Under a contract for the sale of standing timber whereby the purchaser was to make monthly payments for all timber cut within ninety days after the same shall have been cut and delivered at the mill, the logs must either be taken to the mill within a reasonable time, or they must be taken to the mill and paid for within ninety days after they are cut; hence the purchaser is liable for logs cut and allowed to remain in the woods for over a year.</p>