McCrillis v. Wilson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Facts agreed. Trover. —The plaintiff owned a tract of timber land. He contracted with J. H. Haynes & Co. to cut and haul masts to the river and drive them to the town of Brewer. They performed the contract, and he paid them in full. They employed Samuel Nash, Royal F. Nash and James Nash, as laborers in the cutting and hauling. These laborers brought their several suits against Haynes & Co., and attached the masts, claiming the statute lien.
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On Facts agreed. Trover. —The plaintiff owned a tract of timber land. He contracted with J. H. Haynes & Co. to cut and haul masts to the river and drive them to the town of Brewer. They performed the contract, and he paid them in full. They employed Samuel Nash, Royal F. Nash and James Nash, as laborers in the cutting and hauling. These laborers brought their several suits against Haynes & Co., and attached the masts, claiming the statute lien. Masts enough to pay their claims were sold by the officer upon the writs. Afterwards judgments in the suits were duly recovered by the laborers, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court, Shepley C. J., Wells, Rice, Hathaway and Appleton, J. J., was drawn up by
Appleton, J.
The plaintiff, owning certain lands, contracted with J. H. Haynes & Co. for cutting and hauling logs and other lumber and for running the same, for all which he has paid them in full, according to the provisions of his contract. The defendant, a deputy sheriff, seized the same on writs in favor of the several plaintiffs in those suits, who claimed a lien thereon for their labor. It is for this seizure this suit is brought.
It has been decided, in Bicknell v. Trickey & al., that in…
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