Dippold v. Cathlamet Timber Co.

The substance of the complaint in this action is that the plaintiffs had contracted to purchase from a third person the cedar timber on a tract of land in the State of Washington, which was to be manufactured into shingles and paid for at the rate of ten cents per thousand shingles, with the right to enter upon the land and set up machinery thereon for the purpose of such manufacture; that they had established on the land their machinery, the same being portable personal property; had engaged in the manufacture of shingles; had felled a large number of trees; cut them into logs for the…