IOWA STEEL & WIRE v. Sheffield Steel Corp.

PATRICIA BRECKENRIDGE, Judge.

Iowa Steel & Wire Company, Inc. and Oklahoma Steel & Wire Company, Inc. (collectively referred to as “Iowa Steel”), appeal the trial court’s judgment granting Ameristar Casino Kansas City’s motion to dismiss Count III of Iowa Steel’s petition, which made a claim for enforcement of its mechanic’s lien against property owned by Ameristar. In its motion to dismiss, Am-eristar asserted that the general contractor was a necessary and indispensable party to Iowa Steel’s claim for enforcement of its mechanic’s lien and, because Iowa Steel failed to join the general…