Big Lake Lumber, Inc. v. Security Property Investments, Inc.

OPINION

SCHELLHAS, Judge.

Appellant-bank challenges the district court’s determination that respondents’ mechanic’s liens have priority over appellant’s mortgage under the relation-back doctrine and Minn.Stat. § 514.05. Because the pre-mortgage excavation of the property was not part of one continuous project of improvement, the district court erred by concluding that respondents’ post-mortgage contributions of material and labor related back to the first visible sign of pre-mortgage excavation. We therefore conclude that respondents’ mechanic’s liens do not have priority over appellant’s…