Dano v. M. O. & R. R. R. R.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL FROM CHICOT CIRCUIT COURT. Hon. Henry B. Morse, Circuit Judge. Tlie law giving a laborer’s lien is broad and comprehensive. It speaks of all laborers, doing any work under any kind of contract at all, having a lien on the production of their labor.. See Acts of 1868-9, ¶. 224, Sec. 1, (act of July 23,1868). If any person can be called a laborer he who does work on. a railroad can. The diíiículty of identifying the product of his labor is nothing in this question.
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APPEAL FROM CHICOT CIRCUIT COURT. Hon. Henry B. Morse, Circuit Judge. Tlie law giving a laborer’s lien is broad and comprehensive. It speaks of all laborers, doing any work under any kind of contract at all, having a lien on the production of their labor.. See Acts of 1868-9, ¶. 224, Sec. 1, (act of July 23,1868). If any person can be called a laborer he who does work on. a railroad can. The diíiículty of identifying the product of his labor is nothing in this question. If he cannot identify it then he cannot have a lien. But that is certain in law which can be made certain. Broomis’ Legal…
1Opinion of the CourtMcClure, C. J.
Duane M. Dano filed a petition, in the •Chicot Circuit Court, against the appellee, praying for a laborer’s lien upon certain grading or road bed. At the April term of said court, the appellee moved to strike from said petition the names of several parties who sought to become -.co-plaintiffs in the prosecution of the suit; said motion was sustained by the court. The appellee, also, filed a general demurrer to said petition, which the court also sustained, and the plaintiff’s petition was ordered dismissed; to which said rulings, the plaintiff* excepted and appealed to this court.
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