McCoy v. Cook

Citations

• 13 Wash. 158
• 42 P. 546
• 1895 Wash. LEXIS 65

Syllabus

<p>LOGS AND LOGGING — LIENS — CONSTITUTIONALITY OF STATUTE—JUEY TEIAL.</p> <p>Laws 1893, p. 433, § 16, providing that a purchaser of sawlogs or shingle bolts shall be presumed not to be an innocent purchaser .■during the period in which liens may be filed thereon, unless hehas seen that the purchase money has been applied to the, payment of bona fide claims entitled to liens on the property,, is not a violation of the constitutional inhibitions against taking' property without ■due process of law, or for a private use, without compensation.</p> <p>In an action to foreclose loggers’ liens and for damages against an eloigner of the property, the joinder of .the law and equity actions will not deprive the one charged with eloignment of the right to trial by jury.</p>