§ 37-9-602 — Verified statement of account; to be delivered to company; account to be withheld out of subsequent payments

Every laborer, mechanic, ranchman, farmer, merchant, or other
person performing any work or labor or furnishing any material,
ranch or farm products, provisions, goods, or supplies to any
contractor or subcontractor, in the construction of any
railroad, or any part thereof, used by such contractor or
subcontractor in carrying on said work of construction whose
demand for work, labor, material, ranch or farm products,
provisions, goods, or supplies so furnished has not been paid,
may deliver to the company owning such railroad or to its agent,
a verified account of the amount and value of the work, and
labor so performed or the material, ranch or farm products,
provisions, goods or supplies so furnished, and thereupon such
company, or its agent, shall retain out of the subsequent
payments to the contractor or contractors the amount of such
unpaid account for the benefit of the person to whom the same is
due.