Legal Opinion
W.P. Barber Lumber Co. v. Celania
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided November 13, 2003No. 02-1455PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STREIT, Justice.
A contractor, hired to build a new house, walked off the job and left his subcontractor unpaid. The subcontractor filed a mechanic’s lien against the owner’s house and land. After the district court ordered the lien foreclosed and the owner to pay the subcontractor’s attorney fees, the subcontractor tried to garnish the owner’s wages. The district court held the subcontractor could not garnish the owner’s wages to satisfy the amount of the lien. The owner appeals the district court’s award of attorney fees and the subcontractor cross-appeals the ruling it could not garnish the…
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- Pendleton v. SardSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1972
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