Sitton v. Dubois

Citations

• 14 Wash. 624
• 45 P. 303
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 421

Syllabus

<p>LABORER’S LIEN ON CROP — PRIORITY OVER CHATTEL MORTGAGE — IMPAIRING OBLIGATION OF CONTRACTS.</p> <p>The lien given by Gen. Stat., § 1695, to laborers for work in growing farm crops is superior to all other liens thereon, including that of a prior chattel mortgage.</p> <p>An act giving farm laborers priority over all other liens upon crops which they have assisted in raising is not unconstitutional as impairing the obligation of contracts, although the crop had been mortgaged in advance of the labor thereon, where such act was in force at the time of the execution of the mortgage, and must therefore have entered into and formed a part of the contract.</p>