55-207. Lien of contractor on gas and oil leasehold or pipeline for labor and material; filing of statement.
55-207
55-207. Lien of contractor on gas and oil leasehold or pipeline forlabor and material; filing of statement.Any person, corporation or copartnership who shall under contract,express or implied, with the owner of any leasehold for oil and gaspurposes, or the owner of any gas pipeline or oil pipeline, or with thetrustee or agent of such owner, who shall perform labor or furnishmaterial, machinery and oil-well supplies used in the digging, drilling,torpedoing, completing, operating or repairing of any oil or gas well, orwho shall furnish any oil-well supplies or perform any labor inconstructing or putting together any of the machinery used in drilling,torpedoing, operating, completing or repairing of any gas well, shall havea lien upon the whole of such leasehold, or oil pipeline or gas pipeline,or lease for oil and gas purposes, the building and appurtenances, and uponthe material and supplies so furnished, and upon said oil and gas well forwhich they were furnished, and upon all the other oil wells, fixtures andappliances used in the operating for oil and gas purposes upon theleasehold for which said material and supplies were furnished and laborperformed: Provided, The performing of such labor or furnishing suchmaterial, machinery and oil or gas well supplies, unless a period of morethan four months elapses between the dates of performing such labor orfurnishing such material, machinery or oil or gas well supplies, whethersuch labor or such material, machinery, or oil or gas well supplies shallbe upon the same or different wells, shall constitute and be a performingof such labor or the furnishing of such material, machinery or oil or gaswell supplies as a single transaction or contract, whether done under asingle contract or a series of contracts; and it shall only be necessaryfor the claimant to file one lien statement of the work done and materialfurnished covering the transactions as a whole.
Such lien shall be preferred to all other liens, or encumbrances whichmay attach to or upon such leasehold for gas and oil purposes and upon anyoil pipeline, or gas pipeline, or such oil and gas wells and the materialand machinery so furnished and the leasehold for oil and gas purposes andthe fixtures and appliances thereon subsequent to the commencement of orthe furnishing or putting up of any such machinery or supplies.
History: L. 1909, ch. 159, § 1; R.S. 1923, 55-207; L. 1925, ch. 197, § 1;March 23.