Crane Lumber Co. v. Bellows
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Benzie; Aldrich., J. Assumpsit by the Crane Lumber Company against Elwin Bellows and Adelbert Bellows, under 3 How. Stat. § 3035, to recover for 'labor in breaking a jam of logs belonging to defendants. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The parties to this cause are mill owners,
their respective mills being situate upon Betsey Lake, which is the outlet to Betsey river, and both parties are dependent upon this river as a means of floating logs; *483There are two dams upon this river, which are used for the storage of water, whereby the stream may be raised, thereby aiding the moving of logs over shallows, or in time of low water. One of these dams, viz., the one located at Crystal Lake, belongs to the plaintiff; the other was leased to one Hart, who assigned his lease to the plaintiff-. In the spring of 1896 both plaintiff and…
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