· 5/30/2006
Butler Contracting, Inc. v. Court Street, LLC
Citations
- 631 S.E.2d 252
- 369 S.C. 121
- 2006 S.C. LEXIS 183
How courts have described this case
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- holding in an action at law, tried without a jury, an appellate court will not disturb the trial court's findings of fact unless they are wholly unsupported by the evidence or unless it clearly appears the findings are controlled by an error of law
- \The deadline to serve . . . a mechanic's lien begins running from the date the last material was furnished . . . .\
- \It is the character of the claim and not the defense to it that determines whether prejudgment interest is allowable.\
- \[M]echanic's liens are purely statutory and can only be acquired and enforced in accordance with the conditions of the statute creating them.\
- \[M]echanic's liens are purely statutory and can only be acquired and enforced in accordance with the conditions of the statute creating them.\
- “The proper test for determining whether prejudgment interest may be awarded is whether the measure of recovery, not necessarily the amount of damages, is fixed by conditions existing at the time the claim arose.”
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Judges: Toal, Moore, Waller, Pleicones, McMahon
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