All employees and laborers of any corporation, or firm, carrying on any corporate or partnership business shall have a lien upon the corporate or firm property of every character and description, for any sums due them for labor and service performed for the corporation or firm, and such lien shall prevail over all other liens, […]
The lien created in § 66-13-101 shall only extend to and protect those claims as may have accrued within three (3) months of the bringing of any suit for the enforcement of the lien, and shall continue during the pendency of any suit brought for its enforcement.
No corporation or partnership doing business in this state shall have the power to execute a mortgage or deed of trust or other instrument creating a lien upon the property of the corporation prior to that in favor of the employees and laborers, except to secure purchase money.
