Legal Opinion

Osborne v. C. N. Nelson Lumber Co.

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided March 11, 1885PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Plaintiff brought this action in the district eourt for Carlton county, under Gen. St. 1878, c. 32, § 78, to recover compensation for driving logs of defendant which were intermingled with his own. The action was tried by Stearns, J., without a jury, and judgment ordered for plaintiff. Defendant appeals from an order refusing a new trial.

1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.

Gen. St. 1878, c. 82, § 78, provides that “any person who shall desire to float to market or place of manufacture any logs or timber in any of the streams of this state, and who shall be hindered and obstructed in so doing by the logs or timber of another, or any person whose logs or timber, in any of the waters of this state, are so intermixed with the logs or timber of another that the same cannot be conveniently separated for the purpose of being floated to the market or place of manufacture, may drive all logs or timber, with which his own is or may be obstructed or intermixed, towards…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Osborne v. Knife Falls Boom Corp.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1884

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Jobb v. County of MeagherMontana Supreme Court · 1898
  2. Globe Milling Co. v. Minneapolis Elevator Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
  3. East Hoquiam Boom & Logging Co. v. NeesonWashington Supreme Court · 1898
  4. St. Louis Dalles Improvement Co. v. C. N. Nelson Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
  5. O'Brien v. GlasowSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1898

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