Turnkey Constructors, Inc. v. Dewey, Cheatum & Howe, Inc.

CULPEPPER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining an exception of no right of action. The plaintiff, Turnkey Constructors, Inc., is a subcontractor seeking recognition and enforcement of a lien filed by it for labor and material furnished in the construction of an apartment complex owned by the defendant, Dewey, Cheatum & Howe. Also named as defendants are the general contractor on the construction project, North American Contracting Corporation, and its president, R. L. Saucier, Jr. The trial court sustained defendants’ exception of no right of action on the grounds that there…