Redding & Company, Inc. v. Russwine Construction Corporation

CHRISTENSEN, Senior District Judge:

This appeal in a suit to foreclose a mechanic’s lien involves the propriety of a summary money judgment against a defendant who had failed to. comply with an interim order of the district court and whose pleadings had been stricken and default entered, and the effect of subsequent determination among the remaining defendants that the amount secured by the lien was substantially less than the money judgment theretofore entered against the defaulted defendant. Some unravelling of the procedural tangle out of which this problem emerges seems necessary.

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