55-212. Lien of transporter of oil-field equipment, labor and materials; definitions. As used in this act: (a) The term "person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees and receivers in bankruptcy and reorganization of any group whether or not it is incorporated.
(b) The term "oil-field equipment" means oil-field supplies, oil-field machinery, materials, heavy machinery, buildings, tubing, tanks, boilers, engines, casing, wire lines, sucker rods, oil pipelines, gas pipelines and all other material used in digging, drilling, torpedoing, operating, completing, maintaining or repairing any such oil or gas wells or oil pipelines or gas pipelines, or in the construction or dismantling of refineries, casing-head gasoline plant and carbon black plants.
History: L. 1941, ch. 281, § 1; L. 1945, ch. 231, § 1; June 28.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
1957-59 survey of debtor-creditor law, Wesley E. Brown, 8 K.L.R. 265, 269, 270 (1959); William R. Scott, 8 K.L.R. 324, 331 (1959).
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Subparagraph (b) construed. Rodgers v. Arapahoe Pipe Line Co., 181 Kan. 579, 584, 585, 590, 313 P.2d 740.
2. Contract with alleged agent; agency express or implied not proved; no lien. Rodgers v. Arapahoe Pipe Line Co., 185 Kan. 424, 425, 426, 429, 345 P.2d 702.
3. Hauling of another's oil field equipment held no basis for subcontractor's lien under K.S.A. 55-207; lien laws are to be strictly construed. Western Exploration Co. v. Diamond Shamrock, 234 Kan. 699, 706, 675 P.2d 871 (1984).
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