Knox v. Maurer-Krebs Oil Co.

LESLIE, Chief Justice.

C. C. Ledford and Dee Barr, partners, filed this suit March 18, 1942, against Maurer-Krebs Oil Company, an Arizona corporation, to recover $6,850 alleged to be due them for materials furnished and labor performed in drilling and developing an oil well and to foreclose an alleged statutory lien in their favor on “the lease and equipment.” They alleged the equipment embraced an oil well pump, its accessories and pumping rods. This part of the equipment will be spoken of as the pump or pumping unit, which was apparently in possession of a receiver of the company at the time…