Ohio Code § 4971.08

§ 4971.08.

In an action against a railroad company, domestic or foreign, operating a railroad

in this state, when such action is to recover judgment for labor done, supplies furnished,

damages or losses, or injuries suffered or sustained by the misconduct of its agents,

or in an action founded on the company's contract or liability as a common carrier,

if, when reduced to judgment by virtue of statute or principles of equity, it would

become a lien upon the property of such company, prior to the lien of a mortgage or

deed of trust made under the laws of this state, such judgments shall be a prior lien

upon such property, notwithstanding its sale or conveyance by virtue of a judgment

or decree of foreclosure for breach of the terms of such mortgage or deed of trust.