Ames v. Port Huron Log Driving & Booming Co.

Campbell J. :

The facts material to the decision of this case are briefly as follows: Plaintiffs bring suit to recover for certain logs purchased by them of the Black River Steam Mill Company. That company had let out to certain parties a contract for cutting, hauling, running and delivering the logs at their boom at or near the mouth .of the Black River. The defendants, who were organized in due form under Chapter 66 of the Compiled Laws, assumed to exercise their functions over the main portion of the river over which these logs were to be floated. The contractors referred to did not make…