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· 11/21/1881

Mining Co. v. Cullins

Citations

  • 104 U.S. 176
  • 26 L. Ed. 704
  • 1881 U.S. LEXIS 1985
  • 14 Otto 176

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that because the supervisor’s services “may well be called work and labor” themselves, and, “occasionally in an emergency, . . . [he must] assist with his own hands,” that supervisor engages in “[b]odily toil,” and thus “labor” that is covered by the statute
  • “It is somewhat difficult to draw the line between the kind of work and labor which is entitled to a lien, and that which is mere professional or supervisory employment, not fairly to be included in those terms.”

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Judges: Woods

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