Cinco Enterprises, Inc. Plaintiff-Respondent v. Lake St. Louis Estates Co.

GUNN, Judge.

In this mechanic’s lien case, the trial court found that plaintiff-respondent’s mechanic’s liens for work performed had priority over a prior recorded deed of trust. The issue at trial and on this appeal concerns only the priority rights of the mechanic’s liens. We affirm the trial court’s judgment that the plaintiff-respondent’s lien be given preeminence over the deed of trust.

Plaintiff-respondent instituted a suit to enforce mechanic’s liens for house foundation work performed on certain lots in the Lake St. Louis Estates subdivision in St. Louis County. Defendants-appellants…