Bay Harbor Farm, LC v. Sumsion

Opinion

ORME, Judge:

{1 Steven R. Sumsion appeals a district court order nullifying his lien under the Wrongful Lien Act. We reverse and direct the district court to dismiss Bay Harbor Farm's wrongful lien petition.

BACKGROUND

12 Bay Harbor Farm owns property in Utah County on which it operated a farm. In 2002, a farm worker was injured while working with a tractor on or near the farm. That worker subsequently brought a workers' compensation claim against Bay Harbor and Donald Proctor, a manager and forty-five-percent owner of Bay Harbor. Proctor *47retained Sumsion, an attorney, to defend him…