Olsen v. Chase

AMENDED OPINION *

VOROS, Judge:

T1 Bradley J. Olsen and the other named appellants (collectively, Lien Claimants) appeal the trial court's entry of summary judgment in favor of appellees Doug and Chantel S. Chase and Bank of the West (collectively, Owners). The trial court's ruling, in effect, extinguished Lien Claimants' mechanic's lien *540based on a subordination agreement signed by the parties' predecessors-in-interest. The question before us is whether pre-2007 statutory law renders unenforceable this private agreement to subordinate the mechanic's lien to an otherwise junior construction…