Ross v. Olson

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by defendants-appellants Harlan Olson and Beverly Olson from a judgment in favor of plaintiff Scott Ross in an action to foreclose a contractor’s lien.

The action arose out of a contract between defendant-appellant Harlan Olson and plaintiff-respondent Scott Ross, a Mountain Home paving contractor, whereby Ross installed an asphalt mat in a feed lot on an Elmore County dairy farm which the Olsons were purchasing under escrow contract from Ralph and Dorothy Groefsema. The district court found that the oral contract between the parties, negotiated in…