Topjian Plumbing & Heating, Inc. v. Bruce Topjian, Inc.

The issues presented in this interlocutory appeal concern whether the pre-judgment attachment statute, RSA 511-A:8, requires prior application to the court for an order to attach property to secure a labor and materials lien under RSA chapter 447. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the superior court’s dismissal of the attachments as invalid because no application for them was made to the court, and they were therefore not in compliance with RSA 511-A:8.

On November 14, 1985, Topjian Plumbing & Heating, Inc., the plaintiff, sought an attachment to satisfy an anticipated judgment in a…