Musgrave v. Atkinson
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Yakima county, Webster, J., entered Jnly 6, 1921, in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action to determine the prior rights of lien claimants, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBridges, J.
— Is a farm laborer’s lien superior to the lien of a chattel mortgage, when both comply with statutes governing them and cover the same crop, and the mortgage is prior to the lien in .point of time of execution and filing?
This is the only question involved here. The trial court answered in the affirmative, and this appeal results.
*324Sections 1188 and 1189, Rem. Code (P. C. §§ 9666, 9667), provide for a farm laborer’s lien on crops, and make it a “preferred lien” and “prior to all other liens and incumbrances.” Prior to 1915, the statute with reference to chattel mortgages read as follows:
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