Namakan Lumber Co. v. Rainy Lake River Boom Corp.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Beltrami county to recover possession of a quantity of saw logs, or for $6,000, the value thereof,, and $1,000 damages for detention thereof.
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Action in the district court for Beltrami county to recover possession of a quantity of saw logs, or for $6,000, the value thereof,, and $1,000 damages for detention thereof. Defendant, in its answer, claimed a lien upon all of the logs, pursuant to Laws 1889, e. 221, for tolls, costs and expenses, amounting to $25,836. The-reply set up that Bainy Lake river is the international boundary between the United States and Canada; that by the treaty of 1842' between the United States and Great Britain the river is a navigable highway, open and free to all citizens and subjects of the-United States…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
A replevin action to recover possession of logs. The question involved is the right of the defendant to hold the logs under a lien.
The defendant is a boom corporation organized under the laws, of Minnesota, maintaining improvements, booms, and sorting works *298in Rainy Lake river. Logs belonging to plaintiff having been by it handled through its sorting works in the years 1905 and 1906, it claims a lien right upon a portion of these logs now in its possession for its charges and tolls for so handling such logs. Its claim is based, first, upon the statute of Minnesota (chapter 221, p. 350, Laws…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Osborne v. Knife Falls Boom Corp.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
- International Boom Co. v. Rainy Lake River Boom Corp.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
- International Boom Co. v. Rainy Lake River Boom Corp.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1908
- International Boom Co. v. Rainy Lake River Boom Corp.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1910
3Cited by1 opinion
- Price v. Minnesota, Dakota & Western Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1915