Johnson v. Iron Belt Mining Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Ashland County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: This is an action to recover the value of 270 sets of hemlock mining timber of which the plaintiffs claim to have been the owners under and by virtue of four several lien judgments in justice’s court, taken and entered April 2Y, 1889, against one Samuel Garrett, and each anql all commenced by attachments and seizure thereon, April 11,1889; one in favor…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Ashland County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: This is an action to recover the value of 270 sets of hemlock mining timber of which the plaintiffs claim to have been the owners under and by virtue of four several lien judgments in justice’s court, taken and entered April 2Y, 1889, against one Samuel Garrett, and each anql all commenced by attachments and seizure thereon, April 11,1889; one in favor of the plaintiff louis Johnson for $183.45 damages and $51.50 costs; another in favor of the plaintiff Ohrist. Johnson…
1Opinion of the CourtOassoday, J.
It appears from tbe face of the judgment in favor of Louis Johnson that $59.05 was for labor and services rendered, and $124.40 for supplies furnished in Ashland county. It is conceded that the statute authorizing liens for supplies furnished did not, at the time, extend to Ashland county. Sec. 1, ch. 469, Laws of 1885. Patten v. Northwestern L. Co. 73 Wis. 233. This being so, that judgment was manifestly irregular and might have been reduced on appeal; but that did not prevent the justice from taking jurisdiction and rendering a judgment for a lien for the amount of the labor and services.…
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