Winford Lindsay & Associates Inc. v. Cook

GRIFFIN, Judge.

This is an appeal of an order awarding costs, including attorney’s fees, incurred in a *73separate action and staying the present action until payment of those costs. We elect to treat the appeal as a petition for writ of certiorari and vacate both the cost award and the stay of the present action.

Winford Lindsay and Associates, Inc., the plaintiff below (“Winford”), was the architect for a number of high-rise condominiums under a contract with Marina Point Development Corporation, Inc. In 1989, Winford brought an action against the corporation and two individual defendants, one…