Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 350

LIENS OF OWNERS OF THRESHING MACHINES, CORN

PICKERS OR HAY BALERS

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 79, REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE, 1935, AS AMENDED, WITH RESPECT TO LIENS OF OWNERS OF THRESHING MACHINES, CORN PICKERS, OR HAY BALERS, UPON GRAIN OR HAY THRESHED, PICKED OR BALED.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That Chapter 79, Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, as amended, be and the same is hereby further amended by striking out and repealing all of 3352. Sec. 29 thereof and by substituting and enacting a new 3352. Sec. 29, as follows:

3352. Sec. 29. THRESHING MACHINES, CORN PICKERS, HAY BALERS--LIEN ON GRAIN THRESHED, CORN PICKED, HAY BALED--PRIORITY:--The owner of a threshing machine, corn picker, hay baler shall have first lien upon any wheat, corn, hay or other grain threshed, picked or baled by him with said threshing machine, corn picker or hay baler to the full amount of his claim or bill for threshing, picking or baling the same; and if any chattel mortgage, or other lien or claim of any kind whatsoever, be placed upon any such wheat, corn, hay or other grain, either before or after the same is threshed, picked or baled, as aforesaid, then, and in any such event, such chattel mortgage or other lien or claim, as aforesaid, shall always be subject to such claim for threshing, picking or baling; and, in case of the sale of any such wheat, corn, hay or other grain, upon any claim whatsoever, the claim for threshing, picking or baling the same shall be paid out of the proceeds of any such sale, before any part of such proceeds of such sale is applied to any other claim.

Approved June 30, 1949