First Constitution Bank v. Harbor Village Ltd. Partnership

The dispositive issue in this certified appeal is whether a mechanic’s lien filed by the defendant, Fairfield Dock Company, Inc.,1 properly executed and indexed in a town’s land records, is valid as against a subsequent encumbrance under the facts of this case if the description of property attached to the certificate of mechanic’s lien became detached prior to the recording of the lien certificate. The plaintiff, First Marine Corporation,2 appealed from the judgment of strict foreclosure rendered by the trial court following a determination of priority in which the trial court upheld the…