The lien created herein shall be preferred to any encumbrance which may attach after the commencement of the labor and is also preferred to any encumbrance which may have attached previously to that time, but which was not filed or recorded so as to create constructive notice thereof prior to that time, and of which the lien claimant had no notice.
RCW 60.34.050
Priority of lien.
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Quigley v. General Electric Co. (In Re Electric City, Inc.) (1984)
Most recently applied in Architects v. 1501 Pacific Associates (April 1991)
1953 c 205 s 5.
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