Case Name: Allwine & Associates, Inc. v. Scott-Long Construction, Inc., et al.
Court: Loudoun County Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1993-03-15
Citations: 31 Va. Cir. 46
Docket Number: Case No. (Chancery) 14735
Parties: Allwine & Associates, Inc. v. Scott-Long Construction, Inc., et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Circuit Court Opinions
Volume: 31
Pages: 46–46

Head Matter:
CIRCUIT COURT OF LOUDOUN COUNTY
Allwine & Associates, Inc. v. Scott-Long Construction, Inc., et al.
March 15, 1993
Case No. (Chancery) 14735

Opinion:
By Judge Thomas D. Horne
This case is before the Court on Defendant's challenge by demurrer to the legal sufficiency of Complainant's bill to enforce its mechanic's lien. Complainant has failed to file with the bill "an itemized statement of account," as required by § 43-22, Code of Virginia, as amended. Instead, Complainant has attached a copy of the Memorandum of Lien.
The adequacy of the account is not the subject of the instant demurrer. Cf., Knight v. Ferrante, 202 Va. 243 (1960). It is the total absence of such an account. Defendant does not, on demurrer, seek to strike the pleadings, but only to challenge their legal efficacy. While the result of the sustaining of a demurrer may be a bar to enforcement, such a bar results not from jurisdictional fact, but the passage of time.
Ms. Glassman may draw an Order sustaining the demurrer.