Woodruff v. Ives

Marston, J:

Defendants in error brought trover to recover the value of certain pine saw logs converted by plaintiffs in error, who justified as sheriff and deputy sheriff of Saginaw county, under two certain writs of attachment issued out of the circuit court of said county commanding them to attach and safely keep the logs in question.

The plaintiffs in the attachment suits claimed a lien upon these logs, for work and labor performed thereon, under and by virtue of Act No. 185 of the Sess. Laws of 1878, p. 466, and the attachment was issued under the provisions of that act to enforce the lien.

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