Balkcom v. Empire Lumber Co.

Lumpkin, Justice.

1. This is a branch of the litigation arising over the administration of the assets of the Empire Lumber Company, which resulted in bringing many cases to this court. Among the parties to the original petition for a receiver were a large number of manual laborers who had been employed as such in and about the running of the mill and its^machinery, and who set up their liens and insisted upon the priority of the same. All the facts necessary to the validity and enforcement of their liens were admitted, and their claims were allowed by the master except as to certain amounts…