Alberta Court Rejects Assertion That The Mortgagee Was An “Owner” Under The Builder’s Lien Act

In Westpoint Capital Corp. v. Solomon Spruce Ridge Inc., 2017 CarswellAlta 580, 2017 ABQB 254, the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench made a number of decisions relating to the priorities between lienholders and mortgagees. The court found that a mortgagee was not an “owner” of the land within the Alberta Builder’s Lien Act. In any […]