Ames v. Port Huron Log Driving & Booming Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to St. Clair Circuit. Replevin, brought by plaintiffs in error, for saw-logs, claimed by them under a purchase from the Black River Steam Mill Company. On the trial, the parties agreed in writing upon the facts in the case, and submitted the same to the court for its judgment.
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Error to St. Clair Circuit. Replevin, brought by plaintiffs in error, for saw-logs, claimed by them under a purchase from the Black River Steam Mill Company. On the trial, the parties agreed in writing upon the facts in the case, and submitted the same to the court for its judgment. Defendants claim to be a corporation, organized under “An Act for the Formation of Companies for Running, Driving, Booming, and Rafting Logs, Timber, and Lumber, and for regulating the Floatage thereof,” approved February 9th, 1855. The evidence of their organization is contained in a ’copy of their articles of…
1Opinion of the Court
'Campbell J.:
The plaintiffs in error replevied certain saw logs, which the defendants in error had taken and sold as the property of the Black River Steam Mill Company (who then owned them) to satisfy an alleged lien, under section six of “An Act to provide for the Formation of Companies for Running, Driving, Booming, and Rafting Logs, Timber-, and Lumber, -and for regulating the Floatage thereof,” approved February 9th, 1855.— 1 Comp. L. p. 624, et secg.
*270The case shows that the defendants, without any contract or request on the part of the Black Fiver Steam Mill Company, took the logs in…
2Cited by6 opinions
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- Chambe v. DurfeeMichigan Supreme Court · 1894
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