Gray's Harbor Boom Co. v. McAmmant

Citations

• 21 Wash. 465
• 58 P. 573
• 1899 Wash. LEXIS 310

Syllabus

<p>BOOM COMPANIES — BIGHT TO COLLECT TOLLS.</p> <p>The mere construction of a boom across a stream does not entitle the boom company to tolls on logs going through, when it performs no services in connection therewith, since Bal. Code, § 4391, authorizes such companies to charge tolls only in cases where requested by the owners to sluice, sack and drive their logs; and, in cases when not requested, where the logs lie in such position as to impede the drive.</p> <p>COSTS — WHEN SEPARATELY TAXED IN CONSOLIDATED ACTIONS.</p> <p>The consolidation, for the purposes of trial, of separate actions by the same plaintiff against separate defendants, for the foreclosure of various liens for booming logs, does not affect the rights of the several defendants to recover statutory costs in each of the original cases so consolidated.</p> <p>SAME — WITNESS PEES.</p> <p>Where some of the defendants in separate actions, which have been subsequently consolidated for trial, are subpoenaed as witnesses by another defendant in one of the cases thus consolidated, the party subpoenaing them is entitled, on a judgment in his favor, to tax costs for the attendance of such witnesses.</p>