Williams v. Bartlett

This appeal from the trial court’s judgment denying an application to discharge a notice of lis pendens raises the following issues: (1) whether the lis pendens statute comports with procedural due process guarantees; (2) whether the trial court applied the correct standard by which the propriety of a notice of lis pendens is tested; and (3) whether the evidence presented is sufficient to sustain the trial court’s decision.

Th trial court could reasonably have found the following: In 1970 the plaintiff Burch Williams and the defendant John R. Bartlett, Jr. formed Barwil, Ltd., a limited…