OCTOBER TERM 1884.

LEWIS BABCOCK V. CHARLES H. COOK, IMPLEADED WITH
DAVID P. KIMBALL, CASSIUS D. DOWLING, THE
WHITE RIVER LOG & BOOMING CO.

AND TWO PARCELS OF PINE

LOGS.

Lien upon logs-Affidavit.

A judgment enforcing a lien upon logs for labor done thereon (How. Stat.
§ 8412-8427) was affirmed by the equal division of the Supreme
Court, which did not agree that the affidavit filed by the claimants
was sufficient to sustain the judgment, if not objected to before.
The objections considered fatal were that it did not allege that the
parties represented by plaintiff had united their claims, or that they
had designated plaintiff as their agent or attorney to enforce the lien,
or that the respective sums claimed were less than one hundred dol-
lars each, or as to who was the owner of the logs.

Error to Newaygo. (Fuller, J.) April 22.-October 8.
ASSUMPSIT. Defendant Cook brings error. Affirmed.

Keating & Dickerman for appellant.

A. G. Day for appellee.

SHERWOOD, J. This action was brought under the log-lien law of this State, enacted by the Legislature in 1881. See 2 How. Stat. §§ 8412-8427. Twenty-six claimants seek to unite their claims and maintain the suit in the name of one, the present plaintiff.

Statements of lien, made by the several claimants, were filed in the clerk's office in the county of Newaygo, on the 22d day of February, 1883, and the affidavit for attachment on the 13th day of April following. On filing the

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