OFFICE OF THE AmORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN

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Thh will oakubml Bareaber I1zi,

1040, ~qrrea mut -abtiaug the popes PlllnlJ wood or *t&T10a8

le **the** aauantnoOO8sa

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**p0gwfiment** or Agrioultoxe, Pago S



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but wood out In lengthsor two fret, olxtoon inehea or ono foot bo maaewd by throwingeuoh wood irro&ularly into a truok bod or box oontalnlaglM1 aubia toot, oon#idoringthe amount or wood nooomraryto till gii trrr whon thrown irregularlyinto 8arm to

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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 longthrand throm irregularlyinto 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**  longthrand thrown irrogularl~into a truok bob or box oontalningU8 oublo Soot, it will laak BOVOrrbl

oubio root or ?lll~ same. St 18 thornton oloar to 606 that tho lon#h of **wood** and tho waf it la plaood in a pi10 aaker a lot o? diiforMOO ln the amount or wood whloh a spa00 o? lS!Woublo r00t will oontaiU..* Artiolo 5954 or Vernon*6 Annotated civil Btatutoa, a8 amndob, roads in part as iollowor

"Whonoveranr aommodity10 sold by the oord it rhallmoan lee,

oubia ioat, or tho OOntont8o? a epaoo eight foot long, ?our ?oet wide and four toot hi&.

. . ." It would bo diffioultindoodto emwer hour queation oategorioally. It la hi@ly improbablethat any rUl0 o? thumb say now be #et forth that will &do your departwnt in all 0r the many raot ilftuatlona it may ba ?aoed with.

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

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of wood Ia 'arrasuxrmmt OS wood oontdniag 122 oublo feet.' 9 070. 977. IC 16 othervire6rpresma a8 a pile 

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. The law 

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’attoextaln that a quentlt) of wood l,f a oar6 it #hallba piled eight foot long,: ~,?our feet high, and iour ieet rid., but my other mamrermt or pile that ooatalnra full cord *ill be all that wae neoerrnryand woul6 be ru??iolent.@
It followeand you are adtired that tho only lo Pil l a amremmt

@TOU br tho rtataterfor the ac+t6mitkatlon 0 whethelr

any uonnt 0r 8 00-0ait oon~titotora 0024 is vhetheror not that oouodity WI 1 fill the oontontr 0r a I rpaoo oontalniag128 ~ublo foot. Xarofaras wood OF lag other oamodit7 1~8oaorrned the law I.8 rlleat a8 ts the length %nto whioh It rhoulabe out to detemlno uhethor or not there is a oord. Wor doea tho law Foqutro that rs;l pmtlmlax method b0 omployea,mob as plliag tbr matsrlalin cltaoka eight feet long, lour fret wide, and roux r60t high. hy mearurementor 8ean1 (ror example, a wagon 80x1~ lug be employedif that in&xummitallt~ will m6&6m P rrrli

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of the lengths o? wood, when #oldby the oord, the law will requirethat the rtaakr or pileabe ~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 reasonablede&ret, of oorttint7 a rptie~contain%ng 122 oublo ?eot, The sa8ewill be truo If the oontr&ot1~ ?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 aituationrsuah arr ve hare mentionediroaWkl$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 Judiciallyr6Oo~lzO that a ,'h

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### row r00t lengthstill not **meafmre** a **00x4** when out into shorterlengths,in tha ease sug art06 the p&z-- tiee had by hypothesiroontraotedror woom¶ o f wood in four root lengths to be out by the vendor into two foot lengths. lo Oomplalntror false meaauremantcouldbe predioatulupon 

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APPIjPVEDJAN 7, 1941 

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ATTORNEY GENERAL 02 TSXAS