Quimby v. Hazen
Supreme Court of Vermont
Heard at the June Term, 1881, Caledonia County, Ross, J., presiding. Action, trespass de bonis, and trover joined ; referred, and heard on the report of referee.
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Heard at the June Term, 1881, Caledonia County, Ross, J., presiding. Action, trespass de bonis, and trover joined ; referred, and heard on the report of referee. Judgment, pro forma, for the plaintiff to recover 191.52. The referee found : Hazen, during 1880 and 1881, was engaged in the lumber business in Victory as well as in some other places, and had the use of said Weeks’ mill, and owned timber lots in Victory from which he wished to take the timber for the purpose of manufacturing it at said Weeks’ mill. To that end, early in the fall of 1880, he let to one Emerson the job of cutting all…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Powers, J.
In the fall of 1880 the defendant let to one Emerson, the job of cutting the timber on certain lots in Victory, into logs, and hauling the same to the Weeks mill, to be manufactured by the defendant into lumber. Emerson soon after sub-let a part of his job to one Adams, whereby Adams was to cut the timber into logs and deliver the same upon skidways at the lower side of the lots. The defendant was notified of this arrangement with Adams. Adams employed one Kingsborough and five others, as choppers, to cut the logs he had agreed to cut for…
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