Washington v. Slack

The appellants, Les Hardy, Jr. and Bert E. Amlund, appeal from the Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure of the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District, Carbon County, granting summary judgment to the respondent, Dennis R. Washington, as to lien priority. We affirm.

The dispositive issue on appeal is whether the District Court erred in concluding that the error contained in the respondent’s mortgage was not material and therefore, as a matter of law, that the appellants, as subsequent judgment lienholders, had constructive notice of the respondent’s prior recorded mortgage.

On May 9,…