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LINDSAY AND PHELPS COMPANY v. MULLEN

No. 44.

176 U.S. 126 (1900)

20 S.Ct. 325

44 L.Ed. 400

LINDSAY AND PHELPS COMPANY v. MULLEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 15, 1900.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Newell H. Clapp for plaintiff in error. Mr. Moses E. Clapp filed a brief for same.

Mr. Wallace B. Douglas for defendants in error. Mr. H.W. Childs was on his brief.

Mr. JUSTICE BREWER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

Upon the foregoing facts the plaintiff contends: First. That the boom at the West Newton Slough, through which the logs scaled by the defendant Mullen passed was not "any boom . . . chartered by law" within the scope of section 2400 of the Statutes of 1894. This contention cannot be sustained. The words "chartered by law" are not to be understood as referring simply to corporations incorporated...

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