J. W. Wells Lumber Co. v. Menominee River Boom Co.

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a decree of the circuit court for Menominee county, dismissing the plaintiff’s bill of complaint in a suit to permanently enjoin the defendant from further prosecuting an action begun by it against plaintiff pending in the circuit court for Marinette county, Wisconsin, and for an accounting. The instant case was heard on its merits before Richard C. Flannigan, circuit judge, who filed a written opinion which reads as follows:

“For the purpose of improving the - Menominee river and its tributaries, and the driving, sorting, holding and delivery of logs and…