Court Opinion

ID: 9717163
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 06:59:31.121066+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:51.629881
License: Public Domain

HOFFMAN, Judge,
concurring.
I concur except with the majority's interpretation of IND. CODE § 82-8-3-9. I believe that Zeigler Bldg. Materials, Inc. v. Parkison (1980), Ind.App., 398 N.E.2d 1330, at 1332, correctly states the law. Such statute certainly creates a lien on the amount due or hereafter due from the owner to the employer or lessee. If a lien was not created what basis would the owner have for refusing to pay the amount due to the employer or lessee when demand was *612made. The statute does not operate to make the owner pay twice. The owner is justified in not paying the money due by reason of the statute which must certainly create a lien.