Watkins v. Dorris

This action was instituted by appellants, who compose a partnership doing a logging business under the firm name of the Elochoman Logging Company, in the county of Wahkiakum, state of Washington. Appellants are the owners of certain timber lands situate upon and adjacent to the stream named and designated as the Elochoman river, or Elochoman creek, and have for some time been engaged in cutting and removing from said premises the merchantable spruce and fir timber thereon, and by means of said stream have been transporting the sawlogs cut from said timber to tide water, for the purpose of…