Orth v. West View Oil Co.

Citations

• 159 Pa. 388
• 28 A. 180
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1524

Syllabus

<p>Mechanic's lien — Oil well — Supplies—Act of Feb. 17, 1858.</p> <p>A mechanic’s lien was filed indiscriminately “ for oil well supplies, oil, gas, water and steam fittings and pipe furnished to said West View Oil Company for said oil wells, rigs, boilers, engines, machinery and fixtures connected therewith and appurtenant thereto; ” and in the descriptive part of the claim the subjects of the lien were described as “consisting of four excavations for wells, and over each of these a wood-rig or derrick, for the purpose of drilling or operating said wells when drilled, three boilers, four engines, connected by proper pipes and fittings to each other and to the'walking-beam and bull-wheels of said derricks and the necessary machinery and fixtures for drilling, pumping, operating, cleaning and caring for said oil wells connected therewith, and forming part thereof.” The bill of particulars annexed to the claim contained no statement indicating to which of the “improvements, engines, pumps, machinery, screens and fixtures ” the various items of the bill were furnished, nor at which of the wells the articles claimed for were delivered or used. Eeld, that the claim was too uncertain to sustain a lien under the act of Feb. 17, 1858, P. L. 29.</p> <p>Doubted whether the casing which is placed in an oil well, or the tubing and sand lines, are of such a character as to admit of their being made the subject of a lien.</p>