Chesley v. De Graff
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants from a judgment of the district court for Inoka county, where the action was tried by Young, J., without a |ury.
1Opinion of the CourtYanderburgh, J.
During the months of April and May, 1884, the plaintiffs caused to be driven out of a tributary of Crow Wing river, in this state, a large quantity of pine logs, amounting to about 2,000,-000 feet. At the same time, and higher up the stream, the defendants had a drive of about 4,000,000 feet of logs, which they intended to have boomed at Motley, about 50 miles below, on the same river, to be there manufactured. These logs were floated down, and became intermingled with the plaintiffs’ logs, and were jointly driven by the employes of both parties for about four days, when defendants’ men were…
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- O'Brien v. GlasowSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1898