Knapp, Stout & Co. Co. v. McCaffrey
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Mercer county; the Hon. John J. Glenn, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity, filed in the circuit court of Mercer county by John McCaffrey, against the Schulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber Company and its assigmees, and Knapp, Stout & Co. Company.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Mercer county; the Hon. John J. Glenn, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity, filed in the circuit court of Mercer county by John McCaffrey, against the Schulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber Company and its assigmees, and Knapp, Stout & Co. Company. Said corporations, for brevity, will here be called the Schulenburg company and the Knapp company.' The object of the bill was to establish and enforce a bailee’s lien upon a half raft of lumber at Boston Bay, in Mercer county. The Knapp…
1Per curiam
The opinion of the Appellate Court, as delivered by Mr. Justice Dibell, is, in part, as follows: “The first question is, whether McCaffrey had a lien on the raft for his towing" charges while the raft was in his possession. He had no lien by contract, for that instrument gave him none. A common carrier has, at common law, a specific lien upon the goods carried, for his charges in transporting them, (13 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, 580,) and our statute (chap. 141) provides a means for enforcing" it; but the weight of authority is that the owner of a steamboat engaged in the business of towing is…
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