Danning v. Pacific Propeller, Inc.

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge:

In January 1975, appellee Pacific Propeller, Inc. (a Washington corporation operating in Washington) shipped to California a propeller assembly that it had overhauled for Holiday Airlines (a California corporation operating in California). Simultaneously, it billed Holiday $21,259.58 for the work that had been done and, relying on the Washington artisans’ lien statute (RCW 60.08.010),1 filed a “Notice of Claim of Lien —Aircraft” with the Federal Aviation Administration at its central recording office at Oklahoma City.

A month later Holiday commenced Chapter XI…