# Stanwood v. Woodward

> Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · July 1, 1854 · 38 Me. 192

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4929691

## Case

- **Full name:** Stanwood versus Woodward
- **Court:** Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
- **Decided:** July 1, 1854
- **Citations:** 38 Me. 192
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Shepley
- **Judges:** Appleton, Cutting, Rice, Shepley, Tenney
- **Cited by:** 3 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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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