Mahon v. Nelson

Wilson and Besecker are engaged in the sawmill business in Grays Harbor county. They negotiated with one Briscoe for a raft of logs he was desirous of selling. He refused to sell the logs except for cash. They thereupon went to appellant Nelson, an attorney at law, who advanced the necessary money and executed a conditional sales contract to the logs from himself to Wilson and Besecker. Nelson was to have fifty cents a thousand for financing the deal, and eight per cent on his money. The logs were manufactured into lumber and twenty-one laborers liened the lumber for their services. The liens…