Standard Oil Co. v. Long-Bell Lumber Co.

The plaintiff oil company seeks foreclosure of its claim of lien against certain timber land of the defendant lumber company, for the reasonable value of gasoline and oil furnished by the plaintiff to operate machinery used to clear, grub and grade a roadbed for the lumber company’s logging railway to remove the timber from the land. The cause, being of equitable cognizance, proceeded to trial in the supe rior court for Cowlitz county sitting without a jury, resulting in findings and judgment denying to the oil company relief as prayed for, from which it. has appealed to this court.

The lumber…