Amick v. C & T Development Co., Inc.

This is an appeal by Elk River Sewell Coal Company from an order entered by the Circuit Court of Webster County on January 22, 1991. That order awarded a number of former employees of C & T Development Company, Inc., a contractor which had worked for Elk River Sewell Coal Company, judgment against Elk River for $60,000 and attorney fees. The judgment was predicated on the fact that the contractor had not paid its employees for work performed on Elk River Sewell Coal Company’s property, and that the employees, under West Virginia mechanic’s lien statute, had a lien against the owner’s…