Thrifty Supply Co. of Seattle, Inc. v. Deverian Builders, Inc.

Deverian Builders, Inc. (Deverian) and Washington Federal Savings and Loan Association (Washington Federal) appeal from a judgment foreclosing a ma-terialmen’s lien held by Thrifty Supply Co. of Seattle, Inc. (Thrifty), a plumbing supply firm.

The issues presented on appeal are whether an owner’s checks, which on their face are sufficient to pay the sums owing the materialman, but made payable jointly to the contractor and to the materialman, estop the materialman from enforcing a materialmen’s lien; and whether these joint checks constitute payment, as a matter of law, to the materialman. We…