The film stars John Gilbert and Claire Anderson.

[1][2][3] Donald Keith is a lawyer who has recently moved to a fictional logging community in Northern Michigan.

He later learns that Quartus Hembly, the town boss, has illegally conned a man named Daniel Kersten out of his property, ruining him and turning him into the town drunkard.

Keith decides to help Kersten take legal action against Hembly and bring him to justice.

Keith eventually succeeds and also causes the town's residents to rise up against Hembly.