C.R. MEYER AND SONS v. CUSTOM MECHANICAL

No. 5319.

412 S.C. 575 (2015)

773 S.E.2d 361

C.R. MEYER AND SONS COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. CUSTOM MECHANICAL CSRA, LLC, Respondent. and Custom Mechanical CSRA, LLC, Third-Party Plaintiff, Respondent, v. Plumbers & Steam Fitters Local # 150 Health and Welfare Fund, Plumbers & Steam Fitters Local # 150 Pension Fund, Plumbers & Steam Fitters Local # 150 Annuity Fund, and Jackie K. Nordeen, Jr. and Patrick H.F. Smith, IV, as Trustees of these Funds; Plumbers & Steam Fitters Local # 150 Vacation Fund and Patrick H.F. Smith, IV, and Joseph L. Dozier, as Trustees of this Fund; Augusta Joint Apprenticeship and Journeyman Training Committee and Patrick H.F. Smith, IV and Charles I. Hardigree, as Trustees of this Fund; Trustees of Southeastern Iron Workers Healthcare Plan; Trustees of Southeastern Iron Workers Annuity Plan; Trustees of Iron Workers # 709 Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee and Local # 709, International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers; Southeastern Carpenters and Millwrights Health Trust; Southeastern Carpenters and Millwrights Pension Trust; Larry Phillips and J. Kirk Malone, as Trustees of these Funds; Presidential Financial Corporation; Norton Welding Supply, Inc.; Daniel R. Friedmann; Tony Hall; Timothy R. Hall, Jr.; Ralph D. Black; Thomas Brittingham; Arthur C. Carlson; Leonard Wade Cliett; Christopher Cullipher; David W. Cullipher; Joseph A. Doyle, Jr.; Charles R. Ellzey; Brian Field; Clayton W. Googe, Jr.; Martin Granger; William R. Griffin, Jr.; Jack E. Hegler; George G. Lever; Matt Lever; Ernest H. Lewis, III; Estate of William R. McFerrin by and through its duly-appointed Executrix, Nancy McFerrin; Daniel Nichols; Kinda Phormmachanh; Raleigh B. Roye; Nicholas Stewart; Timothy P. Stock; James Waltemath; Al Tiska; Al Carpenter; Bruce Pollock, Jr.; Security Federal Bank; Joseph A. Doyle, Jr.; Brian Field; and Leonard Wade Cliett; Third-Party Defendants, Of whom Daniel R. Friedmann; Tony Hall; Timothy R. Hall, Jr.; Ralph D. Black; Thomas Brittingham; Arthur C. Carlson; Leonard Wade Cliett; Christopher Cullipher; David W. Cullipher; Joseph A. Doyle, Jr.; Charles R. Ellzey; Brian Field; Clayton W. Googe, Jr.; Martin Granger; William R. Griffin, Jr.; Jack E. Hegler; George G. Lever; Matt Lever; Ernest H. Lewis, III; Estate of William R. McFerrin by and through its duly-appointed Executrix, Nancy McFerrin; Daniel Nichols; Kinda Phormmachanh; Raleigh B. Roye; Nicholas Stewart; Timothy P. Stock; James Waltemath; Al Tiska; Al Carpenter; and Bruce Pollock, Jr. are the Appellants, And Presidential Financial Corporation and Security Federal Bank are Respondents.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided June 10, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Nichols , Bluestein Nichols Thompson & Delgado, LLC and Nekki Shutt , Callison Tighe & Robinson, LLC, both of Columbia, for appellants.

Curtis Lyman Ott , Lindsay Anne Joyner , and John Thomas Lay, Jr. , Gallivan, White & Boyd, PA, all of Columbia, for Respondent Presidential Financial Corporation; and Robert L. Buchanan, Jr. , Buchanan Law Office, PA, of Aiken, for Respondent Security Federal Bank.


This appeal involves section 29-7-10 of the South Carolina Code (2007), and whether the section created a first lien on money paid to a contractor when (1) the laborers claiming the lien did not work for the contractor, but for its subcontractor, and (2) the funds to which the lien would attach were held in escrow by court order instead...

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