Volume 209 — Nebraska Reports

1. Threshers' Liens. The purpose of the thresher's lien law is to give notice by statute to all prospective purchasers of grain and to the owners thereof within 30 days after the completion of combining of the possible existence of a lien by the person who combined the grain.<page_number>Page 423</page_number> 2. ___. The purpose of the thresher's lien statute is to protect the rights to payment of the combiner who is not a party to the payment arrangements between the seller of the grain and the purchaser. 3. ___. The thresher's lien statute is remedial in nature and requires a liberal construction. 4. Threshers' Liens: Replevin. The thresher's lien statute gives to the holder of a thresher's lien the rights of enforcement given to owners of secured interests in property as outlined in Neb. U.C.C. art. 9 (Reissue 1971), including the right to bring an action in replevin. 5. Threshers' Liens. Where one commingles property subject to a lien with other property alike in quality and value, the lien is not extinguished so long as there is on hand sufficient property alike in quality and value to satisfy the lien. 6. Trial: Appeal and Error. In a trial to the court in a law action, the findings of facts by the trial court have the force and effect of a jury verdict and will not be set aside unless clearly wrong.