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9 Ky. Op. 751

Dennis v. Bibb

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided November 30, 1877

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1877-11-30

<p>Mechanic’s Liens.</p> <p>Under the provision! of an act to provide for liens for laboring men and supply men' (Gen. Stats. 944), employes of a railroad company have liens for their wages wherever the property and effects of the road can be distributed amongst the creditors; but laboring men can have no lien for labor done to improve, construct or repair such road under*any other circumstances. .</p>

Decided 1877-11-30

¶1Opinion by

Judge Elliott :

¶2The only question in this case is whether the appellant can, by virtue of the mechanic’s lien law, enforce a lien against the Cincinnati Southern Railroad for work done on the road as stone mason.

¶3After a careful examination of the lien law in favor of mechanics we are satisfied that it does not.apply to improvements made upon railroads either in their construction' or repair.

¶4By virtue of “an act to provide for liens for laboring men and supply men,” Gen. Stat, p. 944, employes of a railroad company and the persons who have supplied materials or supplies for the company on its business have a lien for their wages and material supplied, whenever the property and effects of the road can be distributed amongst the creditors, either by operation of law or the acts of its agents, and the enactment of this law, after the passage of the mechanic’s lien law, fortifies our construction of the latter.

¶5Wherefore the juudgment of the court below is affirmed.

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