Doyle v. McLeod
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from Superior Cou/rt, Mason County. Action by John Doyle and fifty-three others to foreclose their respective liens upon a large quantity of logs lying in the waters of Puget Sound at Shelton, Washington. The defendants were Alex.
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Appeal from Superior Cou/rt, Mason County. Action by John Doyle and fifty-three others to foreclose their respective liens upon a large quantity of logs lying in the waters of Puget Sound at Shelton, Washington. The defendants were Alex. McLeod, for whom the logs were cut; the Satsop Railroad Company, purchaser of the logs in trust; the bank of Shelton, holding a mortgage on the logs; W. H. Kneeland, who claimed a lien upon the logs for stumpage, and the Mason County Central Railroad Company, which also claimed a lien. The court by decree of July 16,1891, settled all the conflicting claims…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Hoyt, J. —
Respondent moves to dismiss the appeal herein on two grounds — (1) That the appellant is neither *734aggrieved by, nor interested by, the judgment appealed from; (2) that the proper parties have neither joined nor been served in appeal. As to the first ground, respondent makes no argument, excepting that there may be gathered in a vague way from his brief that he claims that the Washington Southern Railroad Company had never been properly substituted for the Satsop Railroad Company as defendant in the action. We think the record shows that such…
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