Nordstrom v. Sivertsen-Johnsen Mining & Dredging Co.

Citations

• 5 Alaska 204

Syllabus

<p>Mines and Minerals &wkey;>116—Laborers’ Liens—Priority over Attacbaients.</p> <p>The plaintiff lienors were laborers on a dredge belonging to the defendant Sivertsen-Johnsen Company, engaged in dredging gravels in their natural beds for ,the recovery of the gold and gold dust contents therein. They brought a consolidated suit to recover on liens, claiming prior lien on the gold and gold dust so extracted from the said gravels by the dredge as-against prior attachments by the other creditors. Held,, the priority of lien claims given by section 164, Comp. Laws Alaska 1913, over attachments, extends only to mineral-hearing gravels excavated, hoisted, or otherwise piled into “dumps,” and the proceeds thereof, and not to gold or gold dust so extracted by the dredging process.</p> <p><@=>See same topic & KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests & Indexes</p>