Mehl v. Roberts

Kennedy, A.C.J.

In order to partially satisfy debts owed to them, the appellants and the respondent each made competing claims to the surplus proceeds of a trustee’s sale of the debtor’s homestead property. The trial court ruled that the respondent’s judgment lien attached when she recorded her judgment with the King County Auditor in accord with RCW 6.13.090, before the appellants’ deed of trust was recorded, rather than when she later filed a certified abstract of the judgment with the King County Superior Court Clerk in accord with RCW 4.56.200(2). Because the court found that the…