Mechanics’ Liens—Mining -Claim—Labor—Oil Wells.—The second subdivision of section 1183 of the Code of Civil Procedure gives persons who perform labor in any mining claim a Ken for the value of the labor done, and provides that the superintendent shall he considered the agent of the owner; and this is the only statute on the subject applicable t'o an oil well.

Id.—Claim of Superintendent for Salary.—The superintendent of an oil mining company is not entitled to a lien for his claim for unpaid salary, since such claim does not come within the purview of section 1187 of the Code of Civil Procedure, providing for the filing of claims.

Id.—Form of Claim — Action to Enforce Lien — Pleading — Plaintiff’s Eights Limited by Claim Filed.—In an action to enforce a Ken under the mechanic’s Ken law, the plaintiff’s case can be no stronger r than that set forth in his claim of Ken.

Id.—Manual Labor not Indicated.—Where it appears from the claim for unpaid salary of the superintendent of an oil company that his duties were to supervise and direct the oil drilKng operations for the purpose of developing and improving the premises, and there is nothing indicating that he performed manual labor, the claim of Ken is fatally defective.

Id.—'Claim Prematurely Piled.—Under section 1187 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which provides that every person save the original contractor shall file his claim within thirty days after he has ceased to labor, the last day on'which a labor claimant performed labor must have passed before he can file his claim, and therefore where, in a claim filed on August 22d at 12:15 P. M., the claimant stated that he was still employed, and in an amended complaint in an action to enforce thejien it was alleged that the plaintiff was employed between April 1, 1912, and August 23, 1912, and that Ms services were concluded on or about August 22d, his employment had not ceased before his notice of lien was filed, and the claim of lien having been prematurely filed, it conferred no right of action.