Kollock v. Parcher
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Marathon County. The case is thus stated by Mi’. Justice Tayloe: “ This action was brought to recover of the defendants the amount of certain board bills which were due to the plaintiff for boarding several men whilst in the employ of one H. I. "Waller, and at work for him in getting out a large quantity of railroad ties, which said "Waller had contracted to get out and deliver to one Cash, on the line of the Wisconsin Yalley Railroad.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Marathon County. The case is thus stated by Mi’. Justice Tayloe: “ This action was brought to recover of the defendants the amount of certain board bills which were due to the plaintiff for boarding several men whilst in the employ of one H. I. "Waller, and at work for him in getting out a large quantity of railroad ties, which said "Waller had contracted to get out and deliver to one Cash, on the line of the Wisconsin Yalley Railroad. The evidence shows that before .the ties were delivered to Cash according to the contract, Waller had given to the defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
The evidence shows that the plaintiff kept a hotel in the city of Wausau, several miles from the place where the men were at work on the ties at the time he furnished them hoard. There is no claim made that the charges for board were unreasonably largo for men laboring as they were at the time. It is claimed by the appellants that board furnished laboring men at a hotel in the city, at a considerable distance from the place where they were at work, is not within the meaning of the statute which gives a lien for supplies. We are not disposed to hold that a hotel-keeper would have alien for…
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