Maher v. Wilson

HAYNES, C.

Action for false imprisonment. Plaintiff had judgment, and defendants appeal therefrom and from an order denying a new trial.

Defendants are members of the firm of Wilson Brothers & Co., engaged in dealing in lumber in the city of San Francisco, and in January, 1900, procured a cargo of lumber to be shipped to them from a northern port by the Hale & Kern Contracting Company, of Portland, Oregon, on their barge, at a specified rate per thousand feet. The lumber was measured at the shipping port, but there was some dissatisfaction with the measurement, and it was agreed between Wilson…