O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-8-250 (2019)

Lien for wages of railroad company employees, generally

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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The amounts due employees of any railroad company for wages earned by services rendered to the railroad company shall constitute a lien upon the railroad and other property of the railroad company and shall be superior to the lien of any mortgage or other contract lien executed or created by the railroad company, provided that no employee shall be entitled to a lien under this Code section to an amount exceeding $500.00.

History

(Ga. L. 1893, p. 91, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 2329; Civil Code 1910, § 2793; Code 1933, § 94-801.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Lien not acquired by adjoining carrier. - The amount claimed by connecting railroad company for the switching of cars for the defendant railroad company is not wages for services rendered by an employee for the railroad company. Valdosta, M. & W.R.R. v. Atlantic Coast Line R.R., 148 Ga. 842, 98 S.E. 465 (1919). Nor by railroad operating joint depot. - Railroad does not acquire a lien for services of its agents and employees, rendered in the

maintenance and operation of a joint depot, or for labor of its employees in repairing cars belonging to another railroad. Baltimore Trust Co. v. Seaboard Air-Line Ry., 149 Ga. 260, 99 S.E. 867, cert. denied, 250 U.S. 673, 40 S. Ct. 16, 63 L. Ed. 1200 (1919). Lien given by former Civil Code 1910, § 2793 (see O.C.G.A. § 46-8-250) to property of employers only. Poss Bros. Lumber Co. v. Haynie, 37 Ga. App. 60, 139 S.E. 127 (1927).

Priority of liens. - Liens under former Civil Code 1910, §§ 2793 and 2795 (see O.C.G.A. §§ 46-8-250 and 46-8-252) were subject to a debt owed to the United States, though having priority over the mortgage and other debts of the railroad company. Piedmont Corp. v. Gainesville & N.W.R.R., 30 F.2d 525 (N.D. Ga. 1929).

Cited in Birmingham Trust & Sav. Co. v. Atlanta, B. & Atl. Ry., 287 F. 561 (N.D. Ga. 1923); Birmingham Trust & Sav. Co. v. Atlanta, B. & Atl. Ry., 300 F. 173 (N.D. Ga. 1924).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 27 Am. Jur. 2d, Employment Relationship, § 66.

C.J.S. - 74 C.J.S., Railroads, § 531.