VERDICT: $4,050 net to contractor on construction lien after offset of $41,700 awarded to home owners on construction defects counterclaim… contractor entitled to fees/costs on lien foreclosure, neither party entitled to costs on legal claims as neither prevailed. [Read more…]
Construction supplies contract, unauthorized credit
CONSTRUCTION SUPPLIES CONTRACT: Builders with credit account properly found entitled to presumption that suppliers received letters terminating son’s account authority, suppliers failed to sufficiently rebut with evidence that they did not receive the letters. . . because suppliers continued to allow son to charge, its attempt to collect $28,798.56 balance from father fails and Defendants properly granted bench judgment on breach of contract counterclaim and awarded fees & costs as prevailing party although losing 4 counterclaims. . . 2nd-chair Georgia attorney’s rate properly set at $375/hr (reduced from $500 claimed). . . J. Brown affirmed. [Read more…]
Construction lien, $5,476,277 contractor’s fee
CONSTRUCTION LIEN: $5,476,277 unpaid part of general contractor’s fee not lienable against bankrupt resort… settling subcontractor’s $661,767 fee not lienable by successor to general contractor… Cybulski reversed. [Read more…]