Kansas Statutes Annotated

K.S.A. § 58-203 (2026)

Lien for threshing or husking

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58-203. Lien for threshing or husking. Any person operating a threshing machine, or engaged in the business of threshing and harvesting grain or grain crops, shucking, husking or gathering of corn, either by hand or by machinery, for others, who shall under contract with the owners of such grain or grain crop, or with the mortgagee thereof, thresh, husk and harvest such grain or crop, shall be entitled to a lien thereon from the date of such harvesting, husking or threshing to secure the payment of any amount due for threshing, husking and harvesting, from and after the date of such threshing, husking or harvesting. Such lien shall be preferred to that of any prior security interest or encumbrance.

History: L. 1917, ch. 231, § 1; L. 1923, ch. 159, § 1; R.S. 1923, 58-203; L. 1933, ch. 81, § 1 (Special Session); L. 1965, ch. 564, § 405; January 1, 1966.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1928–2021 · leading case: Ne. Kansas Prod. Credit Ass'n v. Ferbrache, 693 P.2d 1152 (Kan. 1985).
Ne. Kansas Prod. Credit Ass'n v. Ferbrache, 693 P.2d 1152 (Kan. 1985). “58-201); liens for threshing or harvesting grain (K.S.A. 58-203); liens for feed and care of livestock (K.”
First Nat'l Bank v. Fam. Med. Clinic, 798 P.2d 519 (Kan. Ct. App. 1990). “*751 A statutory lien can be given superpriority under the Uniform Commercial Code, too. K.S.A. 84-9-310 provides such priority to persons who in the ordinary course of business furnish services or materials with respect to goods subject to a prior perfected security interest,…”
Kansas Wheat Growers Ass'n v. Leslie, 271 P. 284 (Kan. 1928). · cites it 2× “Section 58-203 of the Revised Statutes reads: “That any person operating a threshing machine, or engaged in the business of threshing and harvesting grain or grain crops, for others, who shall, under contract with the owners of any such grain or grain crop, or with the mortgagee…”
Bank Midwest v. R.F. Fisher Elec. Co., LLC (D. Kan. 2021). · cites it 2× “36 See also K.S.A. § 58-203 (providing a lien for threshing and husking and stating that “[s]uch lien shall be preferred to that of any prior security interest or encumbrance”).”
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