Hermann v. Varco-Pruden Buildings

OPINION

This case involves a dispute concerning respondent’s installation of a metal roof on appellant’s warehouse. The principal issues in this appeal are whether the district court erred by finding that defects in the warehouse’s eaves were not functionally substantial, whether the district court erred by not reducing the amount of respondent’s mechanic’s lien to reflect the costs needed to repair the eaves, and whether the district court wrongly awarded compensation to respondent for uninstalled materials ruined in a flood of the construction site. We find the district court erred on all…