Stanwood v. Woodward

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Stanwood v. Woodward, 38 Me. 192 (Me. 1854)
Appleton, Cutting, Rice, Shepley, Tenney

Stanwood v. Woodward

Opinion of the Court

Shepley, C. J.

— The plaintiff appears to have been the owner of the property replevied. The defendant denies his right to have possession of it, asserting a lien upon it as an inn-keeper for board of the plaintiff „at the Commercial House, in Rockland.

No person can be an inn-holder without being licensed according to the provisions of the statute, c. 36, § 11; Lord v. Jones, 24 Maine, 439.

The defendant canno t establish a lien which will enable him to retain the property of the plaintiff, without proof of his character as an inn-holder. There being no such proof a default must be entered. Defendant defaulted.

Tenney, Rice, Appleton and Cutting, J. J., concurred.

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Stanwood versus Woodward
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