White v. . Riddle

Is a laborer’s lien, duly perfected, on a crop, superior to an agricultural lien and chattel mortgage upon said crop, duly recorded?

The laborer began work on the crop on 1 February, 1927, and the agricultural lien and chattel mortgage were executed on 24 February, 1927. O. S., 2472, 2480, and 2488 provide a lien for laborers in order that the work of their hands may be securely safeguarded and preserved. C. S., 2472, declares in plain and unequivocal language that a laborer’s lien upon a crop “shall be preferred to every other lien or encumbrance which attached to the crop subsequent to the…