Ames v. Lake Independence Lumber Co.

The Lake Independence Lumber Company owned and operated a sawmill at a lumbering town in Marquette county called Big Bay, located on Lake Independence, some distance northwest of the city of Marquette. The town had a population of about 400 persons consisting mainly of the lumber company’s employees and their families. Shortly before November 7, 1921, Charles Keller, of Munising, Michigan, who was engaged in the business of raising and moving buildings, contracted with the Lake Independence Lumber Company to straighten up and raise one of its buildings at Big Bay for an agreed price of $475.…