Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. v. Central Railroad

The Yice-Chanoellor.

The petitioner puts his right to the relief he asks upon the sixty-third section of the act concerning corporations, which declares: “ Iri case of the insolvency of any corporation, the laborers in the employ thereof shall have a lien upon the assets thereof for the amount of wages due to them respectively, which shall be paid prior to any other debt or debts of said company; and the wox-d ‘laborers’ shall be constraed to include all persons doing labor or sex’vice of whatever character, for or as.workmen or employes in the regular employ of sxxch corporations.” (Rev. p.…