Frey v. Kent City Nursing Home, Inc.

Two basic questions of law are presented by the assignments of error on this appeal and cross-appeal.

First, are plaintiffs entitled to maintain an action .and recover for the value of architectural services rendered to defendants? Second, if so, are plaintiffs entitled to enforce by foreclosure a recorded lien against defendants’ real property?

The trial court answered the first question in the affirmative, the second in the negative.

Plaintiff Strickland was a professional engineer licensed by the state. Plaintiff Frey, although he had been an architect in Holland and was employed by an…