J.W. Pierson Co. v. West Orange-Verona Bldg. Co.

The appeal is from the ruling of the receiver, that labor claims are entitled to priority of payment over mechanics' lien claims.

The only assets of the defendant company were six unfinished houses, subject to inchoate mechanics' liens, which the receiver sold free of liens, the proceeds of which are about to be distributed.

By the eighty-third and eighty-fourth sections of the Corporation act, laborers and workmen have a first and prior lien for wages earned within two months next preceding proceedings in insolvency, prior to all other liens that can or may be acquired upon the corporate…