Cascade Electric Co. v. Associated Creditors, Inc.

ME. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

This is an appeal from a judgment of dismissal entered in a suit seeking to establish the validity of an alleged mechanic's-lien and to recover from defendants ■ the amount claimed due thereon.

Montana Fish Meal and Oil Corporation, a corporation, hereinafter called the fish corporation, undertook to extract oil from rough fish to be captured in the waters of Montana, and to make meal therefrom for use in feeding livestock. The enterprise was new to this state and involved considerable experimentation.

At the outset of the undertaking the officers of the fish corporation…