McMaster v. Merrick

Plaintiffs, who are transferees from the assignee in bankruptcy of George Campbell & Co. replevied certain sawed lumber at Glencoe in Bay county from the defendants, who claimed to hold it under a lien for sawing the same as part of a large amount. The whole amount sawed was eight million feet. The amount remaining in defendant’s hands when replevied was about three million feet. Under the charge the jury found defendants had a special property to the amount of $3,244.77. Plaintiffs claim that no lien ever existed for any sum. They also claim that assuming there had once been a lien, there…