O'Brien v. Perfection Pile Preserving Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Griffin, J., entered July 2, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action on contract.
1Opinion of the CourtRoot, J.
This action was brought by plaintiffs to recover for services claimed to have been rendered in obtaining and securing sawlogs and piles, which were removed by the owner, this appellant, after plaintiffs had filed liens for their services. From a judgment in plaintiffs’ favor, the defendant company appeals.
Defendant Hopgood had a contract for getting out this timber. Plaintiffs claim that he hired them as such contractor, and that as such he was the agent of the defendant company. The latter urges that- O’Brien was jointly interested in the contract with Hopgood, and performed the services in…
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