Turner v. Randolph

Opinion of the Court, by

Turner, Commissioner

Affirming.

The sole question presented -on this -appeal is whether the statutory lien given to- employees of mining and other corporations- for wages coming due to such employees within six months- before the property -or effects of the mining corporation shall come to -be distributed among its creditors as set forth in the statute, is superior to a vendor’s lien -on the real property of the mining corporation.

The question arises in this way: In July, 1921, appellant conveyed a coal mine to the Kentucky Diamond C'oal Company, a corporation, for the…