Knoxville Table & Chair Co. v. Kerr Bros.
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM MORGAN. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Morgan Comity to- the Court of Civil Appeals and by certiorari from the Court of Civil Appeals to the Supreme Court.— A. H. RobeRTS, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
In this, a general creditors’ proceeding, a number of interveners filed petitions to set up claims to liens on the assets of the insolvent defendant firm.
The defendants as a copartnership were engaged in the operation of a sawmill, and some of the petitioners furnished and drove their own teams in the delivery of lumber from the mill site to the railway, while others furnished their teams and employed third persons to drive them. All were to be paid by the thousand feet of lumber hauled.
The contention of all of them is that they were laborers or employees, and therefore lienors-, within the…
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