RTS Plumbing Co. v. DeFazio

Appellants, Stephen J. Sharley, Diane Perrier, Tadeusz and Lucyna Hejna, Damen Savings and Loan, and United Savings of America; appeal from an order of the circuit court denying their petition to intervene in a foreclosure action brought by the Summit First Federal Savings and Loan Association (Summit). Appellants argue that they were entitled to intervene as a matter of right and that the trial court erred in finding that a notice of lis pendens recorded by Summit barred them from intervening in the action.

The action was initiated in September 1984 when RTS Plumbing Co., Inc. (RTS), filed a…