Confinement Specialists, Inc. v. Schlatter

Abbott, J.:

This is an appeal from a ruling in a foreclosure proceeding that the mechanics’ liens of plaintiffs, Confinement Specialists, Inc., and Hedlund Electric, Inc., are limited to a 9.9-acre area that surrounds the work site (a confined hog unit) rather than the whole quarter-section of farm land owned by the defendants J. Chris Schlatter and Donna Jean Schlatter.

Plaintiffs raise two issues in their appeal. They first contend the trial court erred when it ruled as a matter of law that their mechanics’ liens did not attach automatically to the entire quarter-section; and, second, if the…