North Bay Construction Inc. v. City of Petaluma

Opinion

POLLAK, J.

Plaintiff North Bay Construction, Inc. (North Bay), seeks to recover from the City of Petaluma (City) for grading work it performed on City land under a contract with the developer to which the City had leased the property. North Bay seeks to foreclose a mechanic’s lien against the property and to obtain judgment against the City on a theory of quantum meruit. The trial court dismissed North Bay’s complaint on the grounds that a mechanic’s lien cannot be enforced against property owned by a municipality, even if the work was not performed as part of a “public work” project,…