Legal Opinion
Longyear v. Minnesota Lumber Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided March 24, 1896Published
Error to Gogebic; Haire, J. Trover by John M. Longyear and another against the Minnesota • Lumber Company, a foreign corporation. From a judgment for defendant on demurrer to the declaration, plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
The plaintiffs commenced suit against the defendant, a foreign corporation, by attachment; filing, as a basis for said proceeding, an affidavit in which it is stated that defendant is indebted to plaintiffs ‘ ‘ in the sum of $1,038.39; * * * that it is due * * * for various trespasses done” by said defendant “on lands belonging to said plaintiffs, as hereinafter described.”
“And deponent further says that during the winter of 1892 and 1893 the Minnesota Lumber Company, by divers agents and employés of the said company, entered upon a certain piece of land situated in the northern peninsula of…
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