subject to the approval of the court, conditioned upon the payment of any judgment that may be rendered, whereupon the action is discontinued as far as the county etc., is concerned.

LIENS UPON LOGS, TIMBER, ETC.

For what services, priority. Section 3329. Any person who shall by himself or by his beast of burden, do or perform any labor or services in cutting, hauling, running, felling, piling, driving, rafting, boom ng, cribbing, towing, sawing, peeling or manufacturing into lumber or timber any logs, timber, stave bolts, heading, staves, pulp wood, cordwood, firewood. railroad ties, piling, telegraph poles, telephone poles, fence posts, paving timber, tan or other barks or in preparing wood for or manufacturing charcoal shall have a lien upon such material for the amount due or to become due for any such labor or services, which lien shall take precedence of all other claims, liens or incumbrances thereon or sales thereof, whether such liens, incumbrances or sales are made, created or accrue before or after the time of doing such work, labor or services.

Petition for lien; when and where filed. Section 3330. No debt or demand for such labor or services shall become a lien upon the material mentioned in the preceding section unless a petition therefor in writing shall be made and signed by the claimant and verified by him or by some one in his behalf, under oath, setting forth the nature of the debt or demand for which the lien is claimed, the amount claimed to be due, a description of the property upon which such lien is claimed and an averment that the petitioner claims a lien thereon pursuant to law. Such petition shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which such labor or services or some part thereof were done or performed. If the labor or services for which such lien is claimed be performed between the first day of November and the first day of May following or if such labor or services be commenced on a day prior to the first day of November and be continuous to a day between that and the first day of May the petition for the lien shall be filed on or before the first day of June next thereafter; and if such labor or services shall have been done or performed after the first day of May and shall terminate before the first day of November, or if the doing cr performing of such labor or services shall be continuous from the first day of November or a day prior thereto to a date beyond the first day of May following, and in all other cases the petition for a lien shall be filed within thirty days after the last day of doing or performing such labor or services, and such labor or services shall be deemed continuous notwithstanding a change of ownership in the property on which such lien is claimed. The clerk with whom such petition for a lien is filed shall receive twenty-five cents for filing the same.

Action to enforce lien; parties; costs; change of venue. Section 3331. All actions to enforce any such lien except as hereinafter provided, may be brought in the circuit court of the county where the petition thereof is filed, when the amount claimed, over and above all legal set-offs, exceeds one hundred dollars, or before any municipal court or justice of the peace having jurisdiction of the amount claimed in the county in which such petition is filed. Actions may be commenced to enforce and foreclose any such lien, if the amount owing for such labor or services shall then be due, immediately after the filing of such petition for lien, and such claim

for labor or services shall cease to be a lien on the property described in such petition unless an action to foreclose such lien be commenced within four months after filing such petition. If the claim be not due at the time of filing such petition the time when the same will become due shall be stated therein, and in such case such claim shall not cease to be a lien on the property described in the petition until thirty days after the claim shall have become due; provided, that such claim shall continue a lien upon the property so described in all cases for four months after the filing of such petition. Where the property subject to such lien has been transported or taken from the county where such work was done the person in whose favor such lien exists may bring an action to foreclose the same in any county where said property may be found. In all actions brought to foreclose such liens the person, company or corporation liable for the payment of such debt or claim shall be made the party defendant and any person claiming to own or have any interest in such property may be also made a defendant, but shall not be held personally liable for any costs unless he defends the action. In actions appealed from municipal or justice court no change of venue shall be allowed except for prejudice of the judge or of the people.

Attachment, affidavit for: undertaking: service of writ. Section 3332. (Summary) Allows the remedy by attachment to the plaintiff in a petition for a lien upon logs, etc., and prescribes what allegations must be made in the petition for attachment and when security for costs may be required. The manner in which the officer to whom the writ of attachment is directed is also prescribed.

Claims and orders assignable. Section 3333. (Summary). Where more than one person has a claim for a lien upon the same property they may assign their claims to one of their number. Time checks given to any employe for performing labor or services are assignable and give the assignee the same right to a lien which the assignor might have exercised.

Form of attachment.

Section 3334. (Summary). Attachments are returnable as an ordinary summons. A form of attachment is given.

Lien not discharged by taking note. Section 3335. The taking of a promisory note or other evidence of debt for any such labor or services done or performed shall not discharge the lien therefor hereby given unless expressly received in payment therefor and so specified therein.

L'en for driving logs of joint owners. Section 3337. (Summary). A joint owner of logs which have become intermixed on a river has a lien upon the logs of the other owners for reasonable compensation for driving them to the place of destination, when these other owners neglect to make provisions for this purpose.

Complaint.

Section 3339. (Summary). The complaint in any action to enforce a lien under section 3229 must contain the ordinary allegations in actions upon contracts and in addition set forth the filing of a petition for a lien, with a description of the property, and the assignment of any part of the claim.

(Summary). If the

Findings; costs; execution. Section 3340. court or jury finds for the plaintiff, costs shall be taxed against the defendant, including an attorney's fee not exceeding 10% of the

claim of $10.00. If it is found that the plaintiff had no lien although the defendant was indebted to him, a judgment shall be rendered in his favor with costs, except for the costs of executing the attachment. The execution, if allowed, shall direct the sale of so much of the property upon which the lien exists as is necessary to satisfy the judgment and costs.

Who may become a party or appeal. Section 3340a (Summary). In any action for the enforcement of a lien under section 3329, any person may become a party defendant by filing an affidavit stating that he has an interest in the property upon which a lien is claimed, and may take an appeal within 20 days after the filing of the affidavit, if a judgment has already been rendered, provided the appeal If appellant wins he is entitled to recover his costs.

Bond upon appeal by intervener. Section 3340b (Summary). An appeal shall not stay execution unless the intervener files an undertaking with at least two sureties, who will each justify in a sum equal to double the amount of the judgment that they will pay the judgment and cost if the appeal is decided in favor of the plaintiff. If appellant wins he is entitled to recover his costs.

Cook's lien. Section 3341. All persons performing any labor or services by cooking or manufacturing food for men while they are performing labor or services upon any property mentioned in section 3329 at the request of the person employing the men for whom such food is cooked or manufactured, shall be deemed to have performed labor or services upon such property and shall have the right of lien therefor the same as the men for whom such food was cooked or manufactured. The right of lien given upon such property shall survive any change in the nature thereof by reason of any process of manufacturing, and all persons who may claim such right under the provisions of this chapter shall have the right of lien upon the manufactured product as though the labor had been performed directly upon the same.

Appeals; lien for supplies. Section 3342. (Summary). Appeals may be taken from all judgments rendered by justices of the peace and decisions of the county and circuit shall be subject to review by the supreme court. Liens for supplies can be maintained under this chapter only in Douglas and Oconto counties.

Section 3342a.

Liens for logdriving on the Chippewa River. (Summary). Liens for logdriving on the Chippewa River may be filed with the clerk of the circuit court for Chippewa county. Also contains provisions for preserving a lien for work done in one season where part of the work is not done until a subsequent season.

Levy, how made; effect of; purchaser's liability. Section 33426. (Summary). Prescribes the manner in which levies upon logs of timber shall be made under writs of attachment. Persons who use timber levied upon before the lien claim is satisfied are liable for the amount claimed and for costs.

LIENS ON MINING AND SMELTING PROPERTY

Who may have. Section 3342c. Any person who shall perform any labor or services for any person or corporation engaged in or organized for the purpose of mining, smelting or manufacturing iron, copper, silver or other ores or minerals, and any bona fide holder of any draft, time check or order for the payment of money due for any such labor, issued or drawn by any such person or corporation shall have a lien for the wages due him for the amount due on such draft, check or order upon all the personal property connected with such mining, smelting or manufacturing industry belonging to such person or corporation, including the ores or products of such mine or manufactory, together with the machinery and other personal property used in the operation of such mine or manufactory and all the interest of such person or corporation in any real estate belong ng thereto and connected with such business, which said lien shall take precedence of all other debts, judgments, decrees, liens or mortgages against such person or corporation, except liens accruing for taxes, fines, or penalties, subject to the exceptions and limitations hereinafter set forth.

Extent of lien; filing claim. Section 3342d. (Summary). Liens under section 3342c extend only to the amount of interest of the employer in the property. If the property or the interest of the employer therein is transferred or in the event of the death or insolvency of the employer, all wages due any minor, mechanic or laborer are a preferred lien against the property, provided that the claim as filed with the clerk of the circuirt court within sixty days after date when due.

Satisfaction of lien. Section 3342e (Summary). When any of the property against which a lien may be claimed under section 3342c is to be sold under a writ of execution or similar writ, any workman entitled to a lien thereon may give a duly verified notice of his claim to the officer holding such writ in which case this officer must retain subject to order of the court, out of the proceeds of the sale a sum sufficient to satisfy all such claims.

Effect of mortgage. Section 3342ƒ. (Summary).

No instru

ments by which a lien under section 3342c is created shall operate to impair or postpone such lien. Liens and judgments entered before labor is performed, however, are not affected or impaired by such lien.

Foreclosure of lien. Section 3342g. (Summary). Liens and preferences under this statute may be foreclosed in the same manner as mechanics' liens.

LIENS ON STONE QUARRY PROPERTY

Liens for labor in quarry. Section 3342m. 1. Any person who shall perform any labor or services for any person, firm, or corporation not the owner of the real estate, engaged in or organized for the purpose of quarrying, crushing, cutting or otherwise preparing stone for building, paving, monumental or other use, or for the purpose of manufacturing lime, operating any quarry under lease from the owner of the land, and any bona fide holder of any draft, time check or order for the payment of the money due for any such labor

issued or drawn by any such person, firm or corporation, shall have a lien for the wages due him and thereafter to become due and for the amount due on such draft, check or order upon the personal property connected with such quarrying or manufacturing industry owned by such person, firm or corporation, including the interest of such person, firm or corporation in the product of such quarry or manufactory together with the machinery and other personal property of such person, firm or corporation used in the operation of such quarry or manufactory, and all the interest of such person, firm or corporation in any lease of the real estate connected with such business, which lien shall take precedence of all other debts, judgments, decrees, liens or mortgages against such person, firm or corporation, except liens accruing for taxes, fines or penalties and except liens created by mortgage or judgment recorded or entered before such labor is performed.

2. (Summary). Claims for liens under this statute must be filed with the clerk of the circuit court within 60 days after the first of such services was rendered.

3. (Summary). Foreclosures upon liens under this statute are to be made under the provisions of sections 3331 to 3336, inclusive.

CERTAIN LIENS ON PERSONAL PROPERTY

Of mechanics. Section 3343. Every mechanic who shall make, alter or repair any article of personal property at the request of the owner or legal possessor of such property shall have a lien thereon for his just and reasonable charges therefor, and may retain possession of such property until such charges are paid. The lien given by this section shall be prior to the lien of any chattel mortgage upon said property, or the right of any person in whom title to said property is reserved under a conditional sales contract, for all such charges not exceeding seventy-five dollars in amount, and for the excess in amount over seventy-five dollars, the lien given by this section shall be subject to the lien of any chattel mortgage upon said property, or the right of any person in whom title to said property is reserved under a conditional sales contract, which chattel mortgage or conditional sales contract was filed as required by law prior to the commencement of the work for which a lien is claimed unless such work shall have been done with the express consent of the holder of such mortgage or the person who has reserved title under such conditional sales contract.

Obtaining mechanics' services by misrepresentation of interest in personal property. Section 3343m. (Summary). It has made a misdemeanor for any person to make any misrepresentation as to the nature or extent of his interest in personal property for the purpose of inducing any mechanic to alter or repair the same.

Of innkeepers. Section 3344. (Summary). 1. Every innkeeper, hotel keeper, and every keeper of a boarding house or lodging house, whether individual, co-partnership, or corporation, shall have a lien upon and may retain the possession of all the baggage and other effects brought into his inn, hotel, boarding house, or lodging house by any guest, boarder, or lodger, whether the same is the individual property of such guest, boarder, lodger, or under his control. or the property of any other person for whose board, lodging, or other accommodation the person contracting for such board and lodging is liable, for the proper charges owing such innkeeper, hotel keeper, or