Capital Assets Financial Services v. Maxwell

STEWART, Justice:

¶ 1 This case, which we originally transferred over to the Utah Court of Appeals, is here on certiorari from a decision by that court, Capital Assets Financial Services v. Lindsay, 956 P.2d 1090 (Utah Ct.App.1998). The Court of Appeals reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Capital Assets Financial Services (“Capital Assets”). We affirm.

¶ 2 The facts of the case are undisputed. In May 1994, Dean R. Lindsay obtained a default judgment against R. Craig Christensen in Utah County. Under Utah Code Ann. § 78-22-1(2), that judgment became “a lien upon…