"James (Garry) Hunter" wrote in message
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The home owner is a disabled Canadian and was not able to defend himself.


Garry,

While I live in California and not Seskatchewan, we have mechanics leins
here and I suspect that the rest of Canada and the rest of the US (with the
possable exception of Louisiana as their law is based on the Napoleanic
code) is based on the common law of England.

Part of this is ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Your unfortunate
friend failed to select his contractor with a reasonable degree of prudence,
and as a result got himself in a mess.

The law is not at fault here, the contractor was, and your friend was. The
former being a crook, the latter being neglegent in attending to his
affairs, but the supplier was not unless he was acting with malace.

If the lein is invalid, there is a court room to address the issue and
penalties for filing a malicious lein. If your friend took his case to
court and lost, then there is appeal. If he failed to protect his rights by
getting the reqresite lein releases or something like that then he gets to
suffer the loss, just as if the vendor had not filed the lein and got stuck
without payment would have suffered.

In any event the internet is hardly the appropriate forum for resolving the
issue.

--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.



He
wrote to the head office of Windsor Plywood and he did not receive a
response from them. I sent the other Windsor Plywood outlets an email
about
the Saskatoon outlet filing a false claim of lien. Filing a false claim of
lien is not good for business. A response from the Windsor Plywood outlet
in
Red Deer is slandering the home owner. I posted the response below to a
concern about a lien being placed on a home owners property on the
sk.politics newsgroup. It is not my intention Òto drive business away from
Windsor PlywoodÓ, it is to let people know what happened to a disabled
home
owner in Saskatoon. He was put into the hospital for two weeks by a false
claim of lien on his property.


Hi Carol

A normal practice for any building supplier is to place a lien on the
property for the amount of the building supplies and removing the lien
when
the building supplies are paid for. Check out the contractor, call the
construction association, city planning department and ask your local sub
trade suppliers and trades people about the contractor. A company like
Home
Depot or other Windsor Plywood outlets would not engage in filing false
claims of lien and I would think they would be disgusted by the actions of
Windsor Plywood in Saskatoon.

James Hunter