Terra Technical Services v. River Station Land, L.P. (opinion announcing the judgment of the court)
Annotate this CaseIn 2007, Terra Technical Services, LLC subcontracted with River Station Development which in turn entered into a written contract with River Station Land, L.P., the terms of which provided that Terra Technical would perform demolition and debris removal of structures of various types and sizes on a seventy-six acre parcel of land owned by River Station for an agreed upon amount. In 2009, Terra Technical provided formal notice to River Station of its intention to file a mechanics’ lien claim pursuant to 49 P.S. 1501.In 2010, Terra Technical filed seventeen identical mechanics lien against River Station's designated parcels of land, including the buildings and structures thereon, wherein it alleged it had begun the demolition work on the property on July 31, 2007, and completed its contractual duties on December 23, 2008, although it did not receive the full amount of the agreed upon price for its services. Although River Station filed preliminary objections to Terra Technical’s mechanics’ lien claims on January 5, 2011, and Terra Technical filed responses thereto on January 25, 2011, the trial court did not issue a ruling thereon in light of the failure of either party to take the action necessary to bring the preliminary objections before the trial court. In 2012, Terra Technical filed seventeen complaints to obtain judgment on the corresponding mechanics’ lien claims. In this appeal the question this case raised for the Supreme Court's review centered on whether the Mechanics’ Lien Law required a claimant filing a complaint to enforce a previously filed mechanics’ lien claim to docket such complaint under a term and number separate from that which had been assigned to the mechanics’ lien claim itself. The Supreme Court held that it did not, and accordingly, reversed.
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