Boise Cascade Corp. v. Stephens

ELLETT, Chief Justice:

This appeal involves only one proposition, viz.: When a materialman signs a lien waiver for material furnished and thereafter furnishes additional material on the same job, does the priority date for the subsequent material relate back to the date of first delivery?

In order to get paid, the laborer or mate-rialman is compelled to sign a lien waiver which states that he “waives, releases, and discharges any lien or right to lien the undersigned has or may hereafter acquire against said real property.”

Even the respondents do not contend that the waiver means what it says.…