Andries v. Covey

¶1 This appeal is from a superior court summary proceeding authorized by RCW 60.04.081, which allows an owner of real property to challenge a lien as frivolous or excessive. The trial court concluded that the lien filed by Donald and Marie Covey against a house owned, and later sold, by Darin and Laureen Andries was not frivolous or excessive. But the trial court also allowed the Coveys to counterclaim for money owed, and ordered the clerk of the court to issue a case schedule. To protect the limited and summary nature of the proceeding, we reverse the court’s order allowing the Coveys to…