Case ID: ga_120/html/0878-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Fish, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lanier v. Bailey.
    Argued July 14,
    Decided August 10, 1904.
    Levy and claim. Before Judge O’Steen. City court of Douglas. September 23, 1903.
    
      B. F. Allen, G. A. Ward, and Lankford & Dickerson, for plaintiff. Toomer & Reynolds, contra.
   Fish, P. J.

1. The special lien given by the Civil Code, §2793, to laborers, on the product of their labor, attaches to the property of their employers only. See Quillian v. Central R. Co., 52 Ga. 374. Accordingly, when the owner of a locomotive sent it to a machine-shop to be repaired, an employee of the owner of the shop acquired no lien on the locomotive for his work done in repairing the same, though the result of such repairs was practically to make a new locomotive out of the old one.

2.Where, in such a case, an execution in favor of such an employee and against his employer, issued upon a proceeding to foreclose a special lien upon the locomotive, was levied thereon, an ordinary claim interposed by the owner of the locomotive was a proper remedy.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.