Hiner v. Pitts
Oregon Supreme Court
From Tillamook: George E. Bagley, Judge. In Banc. The plaintiffs, claiming to be blacksmiths and machinists, are seeking to enforce a lien upon a donkey-engine for the reasonable value of their labor and material expended in repairing it at the request of the defendant Pitts, who was the owner of the same at the time the work was done. The defendant Schiffmann claims to be the owner of the machine by purchase from Pitts after the repairs were made.
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From Tillamook: George E. Bagley, Judge. In Banc. The plaintiffs, claiming to be blacksmiths and machinists, are seeking to enforce a lien upon a donkey-engine for the reasonable value of their labor and material expended in repairing it at the request of the defendant Pitts, who was the owner of the same at the time the work was done. The defendant Schiffmann claims to be the owner of the machine by purchase from Pitts after the repairs were made. It is averred in the complaint: “That on or about the twentieth day of December, 1916, said defendant Pitts and the plaintiffs herein entered into…
1Opinion of the Court
BURNETT, J. —
1. This proceeding was instituted under Section 7497 et seq., L. O. L., as amended by the act of February 21,1911 (Laws of 1911, Chapter 159), as follows:
“Every blacksmith, wagon-maker, automobile repairer and machinist who has expended labor, skill and material on any chattel at the request of its owner, # * shall have a lien upon said chattel for the contract price for such expenditure, or in the absence of such contract price, for the reasonable worth of such expenditure, for the period of one year from and after such expenditure, notwithstanding the fact that the possession…
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