Hogan v. Cushing
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Ohippewa County. In this case there was a personal judgment against the defendant Patrick O’Neill, for $768.73, and it was further adjudged that plaintiff had a lien for that amount upon certain logs and timber described in the complaint. Gushing and others, co-defendants of O’Neill, appealed from the latter part of the judgment.
1Opinion of the CourtOktoN, J.
This action is brought to enforce the statutory lien provided by chapter 95, Laws of 1877, upon the logs of the appellants, for the labor and services of the respondent, by his teams and servants, in putting them into the Chippewa river. It is in proof that the respondent himself, personally and manually, did but little of such work, and that it was done mainly by his teams and servants; and it is contended that for such services by others in the work, and in using the teams, although by the employment and for the use of the respondent, the statute does not confer a lien upon the logs for his…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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