Somers v. Kane

Taylor, C.

Plaintiff and his brother owned a tract of land on the northwesterly shore of a small lake known as Nine Mile lake in Lake county. A railroad touches the lake on the southeasterly shore and furnishes the only means of transporting timber to market from that locality. In the winter of 1913 and 1914, plaintiff and his brother cut the merchantable timber on their land and banked the logs on the lake— the larger part on the ice, but some in rollways on the shore. They failed to make a sale of the logs, and in the spring placed booms around them, the ends of which were chained to trees…