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W.P. BARBER LUMBER CO. v. CELANIA

No. 02-1455.

674 N.W.2d 62 (2003)

W.P. BARBER LUMBER COMPANY, Appellee, v. Elizabeth CELANIA, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied January 16, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ed Skinner and R. Bradley Skinner of Skinner Law Office, P.C., Altoona, for appellant.

Bruce Nuzum of Matthias, Campbell, Tyler, Nuzum & Rickers, Newton, for appellee.

STREIT, Justice.

A contractor, hired to build a new house, walked off the job and left his subcontractor unpaid. The subcontractor filed a mechanic's lien against the owner's house and land. After the district court ordered the lien foreclosed and the owner to pay the subcontractor's attorney fees, the subcontractor tried to garnish the owner's wages. The district court held the subcontractor could not garnish the owner's wages to satisfy the amount of the lien. The...

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