RCW 60.24.140
Pleadings by defendant—Amendments—Hearing.
If the defendant or defendants appear in a suit to enforce any lien provided by this chapter, he, she, or they shall make their answer on the merits of the complaint, and any motion or demurrer against the said complaint must be filed with the answer; and no motion shall be allowed to make complaint more definite and certain, if it appear to the court that the defendant or defendants have or should have knowledge of the facts, or that it can be made more certain and definite by facts which will appear necessarily in the testimony; but the case, unless the court sustains the demurrer to the complaint, shall be heard on the merits as speedily as possible, and amendments of the pleadings, if necessary, shall be liberally allowed.
[ 2012 c 117 § 141; 1893 c 132 § 13; RRS § 1174.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 60.24 - Lien for Labor and Services on Timber and Lumber.
60.24.020 - Liens on saw logs, spars, piles, cord wood, shingle bolts, or other timber.
60.24.030 - Lien on lumber—"Lumber" defined.
60.24.033 - Lien on real property for labor or services on timber and lumber.
60.24.035 - Lien for stumpage.
60.24.040 - Period covered by labor liens.
60.24.070 - Period covered by stumpage lien.
60.24.075 - Claims—Contents—Form.
60.24.080 - Filing claim for stumpage lien.
60.24.100 - Recording claims—Fees.
60.24.110 - Limitation of action.
60.24.130 - Sheriff as receiver—Deposit to recover possession—Costs.
60.24.140 - Pleadings by defendant—Amendments—Hearing.
60.24.150 - Enforcement against all or part of property.
60.24.160 - Errors in claim, effect of.
60.24.170 - Purchase of property subject to lien—Presumption of notice.
60.24.190 - Judgment—Sale—Disposition of proceeds.
60.24.195 - Sale of property subject to lien—When.
60.24.200 - Damages for eloigning, injuring, destroying, or removing marks, etc.—Recovery.