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to its regular trains, and moving by special orders. The fireman of the regular train was injured, as claimed by him, by reason of the negligence of the agent of defendant in sending certain orders to the conductors of the respective trains. The COUl"t, after announcing the general rule that, "wher.e the master delegates to another entire control over a branch or circumstance of his business, the person to whom such power is delegated stands in the place of the master as to all duties resting upon him to his servant, and his acts or omissions relative thereto are the acts or omissions of the master himself," held that the trial court did not err in submitting to the jury the question "whether the defendant had omitted the doing of anYthing which it ought reasonably to have done to prevent the casualty which resulted in the plaintiff's injury." Patterson, in his work on Railway Accident Law (section 296), speaking of the duty of railways to their servants in the operation of their lines, among other things, says: "A rallway Is not negligent to Its servants If it varies from Its regular timetable in running Its trains, provided that it gives to its servants reasonable notice of any change which, if unknown to them, may endanger their safety; but Where, on a single-track Une, a special train is ordered to run when a regular train is due, and, no effort having been made to hold the regular train, a colllsion ensues, and a servant Is injured, the rallway Is liable, for the negligence of its superintendent is its negligence."
The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed, with costs.
UNITED STATES v. NORTHERN PAC. R.CO. et aL
(Circuit Court, D. Oregon. May 11, 1895.) No. 1,477. DAMAGES-UNINTENTIONAL TRESPASS.
The N. Ry. Co. cut certain timber on lands which were, in good falth, supposed to be included in a grant to it, and caused the same to be manufactured into lumber. In an action against the railway company for trespass, it was afterwards adjudged that the land on which the timber was cut was public land. Held that, the trespass having been unintentional, the true measure of damages was the value of the standing timber at the time it was cut, and not that of the manufactured lumber after increased value had been added by the defendant's labor. Wooden-Ware Co. v. U. S., 1 Sup. Ct. 398, 106 U. S. 434, followed.
'l'his was an action by the United States against the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and others to recover the value of certain lumber. After the receipt of a mandate from the supreme court, to which the case had been taken on appeal, a judgment was entered by the plaintiff, without notice to the defeQdants. Defendants moved to set aside such judgment, and enter one in accordance with what was claimed to be the true intent of the mandate. D. R. Murphy, U. S. Atty., and Charles J. Schnabel, Asst. U. S. Atty Dolph, Mallory & Simon and Carey, Idleman, Mays & Webster, for defendantB.
UNITED STATES 11. NOUTHEaN PAC. R. CO.
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GILBERT, Circuit Judge. An 'action was brought in this court by the United States against the defendauts to recover the value of certain lumber manufactured from logs alleged to have been unlawfully cut and removed by the defendants in the year 1886, from the public lands, to wit, from the N. W. i of section 7, township 8 N., range 5 W. of the Willamette meridianj in the state of Washington. The defendants made answer that, at the time of the alleged wrong, the title to these lands had passed from the United States, and that the defendant Aaron Kinney was then the owner. It was the decision of this court (Sawyer, J.) upon the trial of said cause that the title had passed by grant from the United States to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and that the same was by mesne conveyances from said company vested in the defendant Kinney. 41 Fed. 842. Upon writ of error to the supreme court (152 U. S. 285, 14 Sup. Ct. 598), it was held that the land in controversy was inoluded in the grant of lands to aid the Oregon Central Railroad Company, by theact of congress of May 4,1870, which grant took effect before the joint resolution of May 31,1870, granting lands to aid the North-ern Pacific Railroad Company in the construction of a railroad and telgraph line between Portland and Puget Sound, and that, therefore, the title to the land in question never passed to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and hence was never vested in the defendant Aaron Kinney, but that, by virtue of the forfeiture of said grant to the Oregon Central Railroad Company, said land was at the time the timber was cut therefrom public land of the United States. 'It was the mandate of the supreme court upon said decision that the cause be remanded to this court, with direction to enter judgfor the United States upon the special findings of fact. . The special findings of fact so referred to were the findings of the circuit -court upon the trial, and they were, in substance, that the defendants had cut from the lands in controversy 293,505 feet of lumber, board measure; that the value of the lumber, when manufactured at Portland, was $9 per thousand feet, and that its value in the tree, when cut, and in the log, was as stated in the testimony offered and made a part of the judgment roll. Upon receipt of the mandate in the circuit court, without notice to defendants' counsel, a judgment was entered on behalf of the United States for the sum"of $2,095, which was the value of the timber cut at the rate of $9 per thousand feet. The defendants now petition for an order setting aside the said judgment, and for an entry of a judgment in accordance with the true intent and purport of the decision of the supreme court and the mandate thereupon issued, contending that in a case of this kind, where there was no willful trespass upon the lands of the United States, where the timber was cut in good faith, and in the honest belief that the title to the lands whereon the same was cut had passed in the grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, tbe true measure of damages is not the value of the manufactured lumber at the market, but the value of the standing timber before an increased value has been added thereto by the labor of tbe defendants. The supreme court, in Wooden-Ware Co. v. U. S., 106 U. S. 434, 1 Sup. Ot. 398, has declared the doctrine that "where
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the trespass is the result of inadvertence or mistake, and the wrong was not intentknal, the value of the property when first taken must govern." This case comes clearly within the rule thus defined. It was the general belief at the time the timber was cut that the land in question was within the grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad Oompany of July 2, 1864, and that the date of said grant was anterior to that of the Oregon Central Railroad Company. Judge Sawyer so held in this case, in the judgment which was reviewed on writ of error from the supreme court There can be no doubt that the defendants honestly believed that the title to the land had passed to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and that it was no longer public land. The testimony shows that the value of the standing timber at the time it was cut was about 75 cents a thou· sand feet, and it is the judgment of the court that the entry of judgment heretofore made in said cause in favor of the United States for $2,095 be set aside, and that judgment be entered in favor of the United States against the defendants for the sum of '220 and costs. PEORIA GRAPE SUGAR CO. v. BABCOCK CO. (Circuit Court, D. Indiana. May 25, 1895.) No. 401. STATUTE OF FRAUDS-SUFFICIENCY OF MEMORANDUM-INDIANA STATUTE.
A memorandum in the form: "2/17. 15 cars mx. glucose, $1.17lh. Our guarantee price. Shipment: Feby., March. L. J. R. Peoria Grape Sugar Co.,"-is insuflicient to sustain an action under the Indiana statute of frauds, providing that no contract of sale of goods, over $50 in value, shall be valid unless some note or memorandum in writing is made and signed by the party to be charged, such memorandum failing to disclose the name of one party to the contract, and being indefinite as to the quantity of glucose, and the price.
This was an action by the Peoria Grape Sugar Company against the Babcock Company to recover the price of certain glucose, sold and delivered. The defendant interposed a counterclaim, to which the plaintiff demurred. This il'l an action by the plaintiff against the defendant to recover the purchase price of a quantity of glucose sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant. The defendant has tiied a counterclaim in nine paragraphs against the plaintiff, seeking to recover damages for the alleged breach of several contracts for the sale and delivery of large quantities of glucose alleged to have been sold by the plaintiff to the defendant. The tirst paragraph alleges, in substance, that the plaintiff, by its written contract marked "ExhibIt A," agreed to sell and deliver to the defendant 15 cars of glucose at the price of $1.17% per 100 pounds, which was to be shipped to and delivered at Evansvllle during February and March, 1894. That the glucose was to be of the kind and quality described in the contract. That 15 cars would be 750 barrels, amounting in weight to about 450,000 pounds. That during the month of April, 1894, the plaintiff by its verbal agreement, also by its written agreement, a copy of which is tiled, marked Exhibits "D" and "E," promised and agreed to extend the time for shipment of the remainder of said glucose on said contract. That thereupon the defendant directed the plaintiff to ship all of the remainder of the glucose, which the plaintiff thereupon promised in to do, a copy of which, marked "Exhibit E," is tiled. That, in compU·