Printable Format55-208. Lien of subcontractor or materialman on gas and oil leasehold or pipeline. Any person, copartnership or corporation who shall furnish such machinery or supplies to a subcontractor under a contractor, or any person who shall perform such labor under a subcontract with a contractor, or who as an artisan or day laborer in the employ of such contractor, and who shall perform any such labor, may obtain a lien upon said leasehold for oil and gas purposes or any gas pipeline or any oil pipeline from the same tank and in the same manner and to the same extent as the original contractor for the amount due him or her for such labor, as provided in K.S.A. 55-207.
History: L. 1909, ch. 159, ยง 2; March 31; R.S. 1923, 55-208.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
Mechanics liens against leasehold and equipment, J. B. McKay, 8 J.B.A.K. 63 (1939).
Developments in debtor-creditor law between 1965 and 1969, Robert B. Morton, 18 K.L.R. 351, 372 (1970).
"Recent Developments in Kansas Oil and Gas Law," Philip E. DeLaTorre, 32 K.L.R. 595, 608 (1984).
"The Scope of the Kansas Public Works Bond Statute: Nailing Down the Subcontractor-Materialman Distinction [J.W. Thompson Co. v. Welles Product Corp., 243 Kan. 503, 758 P.2d 738 (1988)]," Michael D. Strong, 28 W.L.J. 413, 418 (1989).
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Labor performed or material furnished to owner, agent or contractor. Meadows v. Oil Co., 108 K. 228, 230, 194 P. 916.
2. Lien where material sold to be used on property. Supply Co. v. Oil Co., 110 K. 468, 471, 204 P. 692.
3. A partnership may obtain lien for labor performed. Skinner v. Oil Co., 112 K. 742, 743, 744, 212 P. 684.
4. Effect of furnishing material to agent of owner or to contractor. Woodmansee v. Oil & Gas Co., 113 K. 637, 216 P. 276.
5. Drillers procured by owner's agent entitled to lien. Mendenhall v. Producing Co., 115 K. 729, 224 P. 925.
6. Construed; application to subcontractors. Mountain Iron & Supply Co. v. Branum, 200 K. 38, 40, 41, 43, 45, 434 P.2d 1015.
7. A supplier to a materialman is afforded no protection under the oil and gas lien statutes. Interlake, Inc. v. Kansas Power & Light, 7 K.A.2d 16, 637 P.2d 464. Reversed: 231 K. 251, 253, 256, 257, 644 P.2d 385 (1982).
8. Daywork drilling contract and service of hauling and transporting oil field equipment not basis for lien hereunder; lien laws to be strictly construed against one claiming privilege. Calvert Western Exploration Co. v. Diamond Shamrock, 234 K. 699, 702, 675 P.2d 871 (1984).
9. "Materialman" defined; no lien protection afforded to materialman and suppliers to materialman. Sfeld Engineering, Inc. v. Franklin Supply Co., 247 K. 146, 151, 795 P.2d 60 (1990).