Davis v. Ship Lumber Mill Co.

The plaintiff, Davis, by his original complaint filed in the superior court for Pierce county in this action, sought foreclosure of his stumpage lien claim upon logs and lumber manufactured therefrom which were then alleged to be at the defendant mill company’s mill, which logs had been logged from his land by the defendant Allison and by him sold to the mill company. That complaint may also be regarded as seeking alternative relief from the mill company by way of damages by eloignment of the logs, in the event that it should ultimately appear that the mill company had rendered the identity…