Opinion ID: 4517871
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Eagle County Suit

Text: The first suit, filed in 2009 in Eagle County District Court (“Eagle Court”), was an action by McDonald against Zions First National Bank (“Zions”), in which he alleged Zions breached a loan agreement and the duty of good faith and fair dealing when it failed to advance the draws he requested. Zions denied the allegations and counterclaimed for a deficiency judgment. Shortly after the Eagle Court granted summary judgment in favor of Zions on McDonald’s claims, Zions voluntarily dismissed its counterclaim without prejudice. Thereafter, the Eagle Court awarded Zions $102,267.75 in attorney fees and costs incurred in defending against McDonald’s suit. When McDonald tried to appeal—including an appeal of Zions’s voluntary dismissal of its counterclaim without prejudice—the Colorado Court of Appeals ordered him to obtain certification under Colo. R. Civ. P. 54(b), “because the crossclaims [sic] were dismissed without prejudice, [and therefore] an appealable order has not entered.” R., Vol. I at 30. The court noted if it “had found that a final and appealable order had been entered, it would have found that the time for filing an appeal had not started to run because there was no evidence that [McDonald] ever 2 was served a copy of the [Eagle Court’s] order.” Id. at 30-31. McDonald’s appeal was dismissed when he failed to obtain certification. Sometime later, as part of its efforts to collect the judgment for attorney fees and costs, Zions obtained a writ of garnishment from the Eagle Court for an account McDonald maintained at Bellco.