Plotts v. Warburton

Citations

• 20 Pa. Super. 496
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 268

Syllabus

<p>Estoppel — Contract—Timber.</p> <p>Where an owner of timber enters into a written contract with another person by which the latter is to cut timber to a certain amount and deliver it to the owner, and in consideration of his services is to have the remaining timber, and the owner after a certain amount of the timber had been cut stated to persons who were doing the work for the contractor that he had received sufficient timber to protect his claim, and that they could cut the remaining timber and make their claim against the contractor out of that, the owner is estopped from setting up any claim to the remaining timber cut by the other parties in reliance upon his statement.</p>