Far West Landscaping, Inc. v. Pacific Cascade Corp.

*655HOLMAN, J.

Plaintiff brought a suit to foreclose a lien for landscaping work. The trial court found there was no valid lien but gave judgment to plaintiff for the reasonable value of the work. Subsequent to the trial and within the time during which defendant could appeal, defendant’s lawyer called the trial judge inquiring whether the judgment for plaintiff had yet been signed. The trial judge mistakenly told her the judgment order had not been signed, when, in fact, it had been signed and entered. Defendant’s lawyer requested that the court not sign the judgment order until after a certain…