Klondike Lumber Co. v. Williams
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Little River Circuit Court in Chancery. Will P. Feazbl, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The Long Pine Lumber Company in 1898 owned and operated a saw mill in Little River county for the purpose of making lumber. This company made a contract with the firm of Williams Bros., composed of J. M. and A. D. Williams, to cut and deliver logs on the skidway at their mills.
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Appeal from Little River Circuit Court in Chancery. Will P. Feazbl, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The Long Pine Lumber Company in 1898 owned and operated a saw mill in Little River county for the purpose of making lumber. This company made a contract with the firm of Williams Bros., composed of J. M. and A. D. Williams, to cut and deliver logs on the skidway at their mills. To carry out this contract, Williams Bros, employed a number of persons to assist in cutting and hauling the lumber to the mill. They, did part of the labor themselves, but did not work all the time, or make regular…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts). The question presented by this appeal is whether certain contractors and laborers had a lien on lumber manufactured by the Long Pine Lumber Company and sold by it to the appellant, Klondike Lumber Company.
Onr statute gives laborers who perforin work and labor a lien on the production of their labor for the amount due them for such work and labor. Sand. & H. Dig. § 4766; Acts of 1895, p. 39. The statute, as it now stands in the Acts of 1895, is silent as to whether the labor shall be done under a contract or not, but of course it was not intended that a…
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