Legal Opinion
Lambert v. Davis
California Supreme Court
Decided March 16, 1897No. Sac. No. 207PublishedCited by 4 opinions
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Fresno County. E. W. Sisley, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtVan Fleet, J.
An act entitled “An act to secure the wages of persons employed as laborers on threshing-machines,” approved March 12, 1885 (Stats. 1885, p. 109), provides:
“ Section 1. Every person performing work or labor of any kind, in, with, about, or upon any threshing-machine, the engine, horse-power, wagons, or appurtenances thereof, while engaged in threshing, shall have a lien upon the same to the extent of the value of his services.”
It also makes provision for the method of enforcing such lien by sale of the property, etc.
The single question presented by the appeal under the facts is whether a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Chuch v.GarRisonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1888
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