Farrington v. Meek
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an action to recover possession of two rafts of ' lumber alleged to be wrongfully detained by the defendants, Meek and Clemens. The plaintiff gave a delivery bond and took possession of the lumber. The defendants in their answer admitted the ownership of the lumber by the plaintiffs, and set up a lien upon said lumber.
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Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an action to recover possession of two rafts of ' lumber alleged to be wrongfully detained by the defendants, Meek and Clemens. The plaintiff gave a delivery bond and took possession of the lumber. The defendants in their answer admitted the ownership of the lumber by the plaintiffs, and set up a lien upon said lumber. It appeared in evidence that in February, 1858, the plaintiffs, the owners of two rafts of lumber, engaged the defendant Meek and one Burns to run and raft said lumber from Wisconsin to any point designated by the owners in the…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, Judge
This action was brought by the owners of a raft of lumber to recover the possession of it from the raftsmen, who had brought it down the Mississippi from some point in Wisconsin, and who withheld it under a claim of a lien for a portion of the compensation agreed on for rafting. There was a special contract between the plaintiffs and defendants. By this contract the compensation was specified for managing ■the raft over various rapids and landing it at St. Louis, or some point on the Mississippi above St. Louis to be designated by the plaintiffs; and it was also provided that the owners of…
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- Steinman v. WilkinsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1844
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- Haughton v. BuschMichigan Supreme Court · 1894