Stout Lumber Co. v. Green

J. H. Willson and three other parties brought separate suits in the court of a justice of the peace to enforce laborers’ liens against a certain car of lumber as the property of M. L. Allen. These suits were begun on September 9, 1925, and attachments were issued and levied upon the lumber the same day. Two days later the Stout Lumber Company brought suit in replevin in the circuit court to recover possession of the lumber.

It was alleged in the complaint filed in the replevin suit, and testimony was offered tending to show, that, on February 6, 1925, the plaintiff lumber company, hereinafter…