EMMETSBURG READY MIX CO. v. NORRIS

No. 83-461.

362 N.W.2d 498 (1985)

EMMETSBURG READY MIX CO., d/b/a Clay County Concrete, Appellant, v. G. Kennon NORRIS and Margaret M. Norris, Husband and Wife, Individually, and as Partners in 18 Norris Place, an Iowa Partnership, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 13, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald J. Bormann of Doran & Bormann, Emmetsburg, and Redge O. Berg, Spencer, for appellant.

David A. Scott of Cornwall, Avery, Bjornstad & Scott, Spencer, for appellees.

Considered en banc.


REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

The fighting issue in this case is whether the statutory thirty days' time (following statutory notice) granted a mechanic's lienholder for bringing an action to enforce the lien can be narrowed to twenty-nine days when the courthouse is locked on the thirtieth day for a declared holiday.

The operative facts are few. Plaintiff Emmetsburg Ready Mix Co. (Ready Mix) filed a mechanic's lien against real estate owned by defendants G....

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