Hopkins v. Rays
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, to enforce a lien for labor and supplies to the amount-of $570.46 furnished by the plaintiff to the defendants in cutting and hauling logs. Facts found by a referee. The defendants were engaged in cutting and hauling logs from their lot in Kilkenny.
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Assumpsit, to enforce a lien for labor and supplies to the amount-of $570.46 furnished by the plaintiff to the defendants in cutting and hauling logs. Facts found by a referee. The defendants were engaged in cutting and hauling logs from their lot in Kilkenny. The plaintiff furnished them with supplies to the amount of $390.46, which went into the general enterprise, and drew logs as directed, for which there was due the sum of $180. The logs taken from the lot were drawn to different places. Those attached by the plaintiff were not drawn by her teams, but came from the same lot as those for…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The precept in the writ commanded the officer to attach all the logs drawn by the Rays, McPherson & Co., and lying by the Kilkenny railroad in Lancaster, Kilkenny, or Northumberland. The officer’s return shows an attachment of all hard-wood logs lying upon the pond, in and about the mill-yard of Whipple’s [the claimant’s] mill in Lancaster. The logs attached were lying on the mill-pond three or four rods from the railroad. At the time of the attachment they had been purchased by Whipple of the defendants, subject to whatever lien the plaintiff had.
The description of the property was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hill v. CallahanSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1878
3Cited by1 opinion
- Innie v. W & R, INC.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1976