W. E. Erickson Construction, Inc. v. Congress-Kenilworth Corp.

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order appointing a receiver of a corporation that operates a water slide as an amusement business. The defendants, Congress-Kenilworth Corporation, James Adams and John Stafford (collectively Congress-Kenilworth) claim that the trial court was in error when it appointed a receiver on the petition of the plaintiffs, W. E. Erickson Company, Inc., and W. E. Erickson (collectively Erickson).

Erickson filed an action seeking a money judgment for breach of a construction contract. It also sought to impose a constructive trust on the defendants’ interest in the…