Obraske v. Woody

MacLaughlin, Justice.

Defendant property owners appeal from a judgment of the district court and an order denying a new trial in a mechanics lien case. The only question before this court is whether the trial court’s awards of attorneys’ fees to plaintiff, Gerald Obraske, and to intervenor, Bituminous Construction Company, were excessive.

The action involved foreclosure of a mechanics lien. At the trial plaintiff’s attorney, Donald K. Smith, testified to a rather lengthy list of services that he had performed for plaintiff in the case. In addition to the normal tasks of preparation of a…