Manhattan Mall Co. v. Shult

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Six, J.:

This is a K.S.A. 1992 Supp. 60-1102 mechanic’s lien case. The controlling issue is whether the lien was timely filed.

Manhattan Mall Company (the Company) sued to remove the cloud of a mechanic’s lien on an abandoned leasehold interest in a shopping mall. The trial court ruled that the lien filed by Alan J. Hastings, an architect contractor and one of the defendants in the lien foreclosure action, was not timely filed. The trial court also ruled that the lien only applied to a leasehold interest. We have jurisdiction under K.S.A. 20-3018(c)…