Poss Bros. v. Haynie

J. E. Haynie, as employee of one Campbell, made an affidavit against Campbell and Poss Brothers Lumber Company as codefendants, for the foreclosure of a laborer’s lien upon lumber belonging to this company. The last-named defendant interposed a counter-affidavit, and now, after verdict in favor of the plaintiff, excepts to the overruling of its motion for a new trial. The evidence showed that the lumber company owned and operated a planing mill, and that Campbell owned and operated a sawmill. The lumber company also owned a body of standing timber, which it engaged Campbell to saw into lumber…