68 Wash. 431 | Wash. | 1912
This is an application to this court to grant and fix the amount of a supersedeas bond pending the appeal herein. The facts, so far as pertinent, are these: On July 31, 1909, the Weyerhauser Timber Company, being the owner of the northwest quarter of section 35, township 11, north, range 8, west, in Pacific county, sold the timber on said land to' the Deep River Logging Company, with the right to remove the timber within five years. On September 12, 1910, the Weyerhauser Timber Company sold the northeast quarter of the same section to the respondent, reserving to itself, its successors and assigns, the right to freely pass over said land or any portion thereof, by team, railway, or
Without further reviewing the showing as to the damage incident to the denial of this application to the logging company, because of the stopping of its logging operations and its consequent inability to fulfill its contracts for the delivery of logs, and the character and amount of damage to respondent’s lands because of their value and character in the operation of the logging railway, it appears to us that the application should in justice and equity be granted. It must be recognized as an established rule in this state that
It is therefore ordered that the injunction granted by the decree herein be suspended during the pendency of this appeal, and until the further order of this court, conditioned upon appellant filing a supersedeas undertaking in the penal sum of $10,000 properly conditioned for the payment of damages; said bond to be approved by the clerk of the court below and to be filed therein, in order that it may be at all times subject to the convenience of respondent should it so require.
Dunbar, C. J., Ellis, Fullerton, and Mount, JJ., concur.