California Court of Appeal

In an electrician's action to enforce a stop notice so it could recover the reasonable value of labor and materials furnished on a project owned by a community college district, an award of attorney's fees to the district is reversed, where: 1) Civil Code section 3186 does not authorize an attorney fee award in favor of a public entity; and 2) the district did not interplead the funds and therefore was not entitled to recover its attorney's fees under Code of Civil Procedure section 386.6(a) or any other statute.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/12/2012
• Published 03/12/2012

Judges

• Croskey

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rippetoe Miles, Public Agency Law Group