Bernhardt v. Rice
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Marathon county: Chas. Y. BaedeeN, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover for labor in a sawmill, and to enforce a lien upon 60,000 feet of lumber which was manufactured in the mill. The defendant Stevens was the owner of the mill, and was the original defendant, and the defendant Rice was afterwards interpleaded, and filed an answer,, claiming to own the lumber which was attached.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Marathon county: Chas. Y. BaedeeN, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover for labor in a sawmill, and to enforce a lien upon 60,000 feet of lumber which was manufactured in the mill. The defendant Stevens was the owner of the mill, and was the original defendant, and the defendant Rice was afterwards interpleaded, and filed an answer,, claiming to own the lumber which was attached. The facts in the case were simple and practically undisputed. The plaintiff went to work October 28, 1895, for the de-. fendant Stevens, at his mill, called the…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, J.
The first contention made by the appellant is that the present log-lien-law (Laws of 1891, ch. 139) only gives a lien to one who manufactures logs or timber into lumber, and that the evidence shows that the material which, was sawed at the mill in question was lumber, and that *582.'it was manufactured into dimension stuff, planks, wagon tongues, etc., and hence that there is no lien. The court •found, however, that the plaintiff’s work was performed in ■•manufacturing logs and timber into planks, dimensions, wagon tongues, etc. While the evidence is very meager on the ¡point, we regard it as…
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