Wroten v. Robbins

Citations

• 103 Wash. 393
• 174 P. 968
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1091

Syllabus

<p>Receivers — Appointment—Parties Entitled. Copartners of a failing firm, who were vendees in a conditional sale of a logging outfit, wrongfully excluded from the possession of partnership property hy the vendor, without notice, are entitled to maintain an action for the appointment of a receiver to conserve the property and wind up the partnership business.</p> <p>Receivers — Compensation-—Attorney’s Fees. An allowance to a receiver of a logging concern of the usual pay which he could earn as a competent logging foreman, and $50 to his attorney, appear to he modest.</p> <p>Mechanics’ Liens — Claims—Waiver. A clause in a contract for the rental of a donkey éngine providing for payment at the time each raft of logs is sold, and if not so paid, giving the lessor the right to declare the agreement at an end, is not a waiver of the right to file a lien for unpaid rental.</p>