(770 ILCS 40/50a) (from Ch. 82, par. 59a)
Sec. 50a.
Every person who, as owner or lessee of any threshing machine,
clover huller, corn sheller or hay baler, threshes grain or seed, hulls
clover, shells corn or presses hay or straw at the request of the owner,
reputed owner, authorized agent of the owner or lawful possessor of such
crops shall have a lien upon such crops, beginning at the date of the
commencement of such threshing, hulling, shelling or baling, for the agreed
contract price of the job, or, in the absence of a contract price, for the
reasonable value of the services or labor furnished. Such lien shall run
for a period of (8) eight months after the completion of such services or
labor notwithstanding the fact that the possession of the crops has been
surrendered to its owner or lawful possessor, provided that such lien shall
not be valid and enforceable against a purchaser of said crops from the
owner or lawful possessor thereof unless the lien holder shall, previous to
or at the time of making final settlement for such crops by such purchaser,
serve upon such purchaser a notice in writing of the existence of such
lien.
(Source: Laws 1931, p. 667.)
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