O.C.G.A. § 44-14-514 (2019)

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JUDICIAL DECISIONS Sawmills treated as personalty. - All sawmills, whether they be in fact fixtures or not, are treated as personalty under O.C.G.A. § 44-14-514. Empire Lumber Co. v. Kiser & Co., 91 Ga. 643, 17 S.E. 972, 1893 Ga. LEXIS 298 (1893). Plaintiff in execution has burden of proof. - Possession by the lienholder is proper, and this being true, and if there is no contradiction thereof by the claimant, the plaintiff in execution carries the burden of proof to show either title or possession of defendant in execution. Jones v. Major, 83 Ga. App. 78, 62 S.E.2d 729, 1950 Ga. App. LEXIS 1031 (1950). Enforcement by laborer at sawmill. - A laborer employed about a sawmill with the knowledge of the owner of lum-

ber may enforce a lien under O.C.G.A. § 44-14-514 against the lumber although the laborer is employed by the proprietor of the sawmill. McCook v. Brown, 28 Ga. App. 525, 112 S.E. 151, 1922 Ga. App. LEXIS 654 (1922). No lien where owner rents facilities and labor to another. - The proprietor of a sawmill who contracts to saw timber and to furnish for that purpose a mill and a fireman at a stipulated price per day, such price to cover the rent of the mill as well as the proprietor’s own labor and the labor of the fireman, does not acquire, a lien under O.C.G.A. § 44-14-514. Jones v. Newsome, 27 Ga. App. 386, 108 S.E. 558, 1921 Ga. App. LEXIS 919 (1921).