In re Barker Boatworks, LLC
The actual eight-page July 25, 2019 opinion was downloaded from its link on the court’s public Williamson opinion index and read in full. Expired search result document links returned 404; following the public index supplied the working link without authentication or bypassing an access restriction.
Holding
Sea Force’s unpaid work and possession created and perfected its section 713.596 molder’s lien. The statute’s notices were conditions for enforcing through sale, not prerequisites to lien creation/perfection. Possession at the bankruptcy petition date supported the lien; the court granted adequate protection and recognized a USD 27,917.82 lien on escrowed sale proceeds (pp. 3–8).
Limits
The case is a bankruptcy turnover/adequate-protection decision, not approval of a completed private molder auction or a ruling against every competing perfected lender. Its discussion of ordinary possessory-lien priority does not erase section 713.596(3)(c)‘s express sale-proceeds waterfall. The opinion’s general turnover discussion predates later Supreme Court decisions; this page does not endorse every quoted bankruptcy proposition as current law. Comprehensive subsequent treatment remains unverified.
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The identical full opinion is also available in GovInfo’s fifteen-page single-column version; the court-index download above is eight pages in two columns. Pagination differs, not the holding.
Independent Primary-Text Comparison — 2026-10-17
Original eight-page two-column and GovInfo fifteen-page versions agree; no actual rival-lender rank/private-sale adjudication. Pre-Fulton turnover discussion is not endorsed as blanket current law. Current operative comparison: § 713.596; § 679.333. Full holding verification is not a comprehensive still-good-law certificate. Where the former source URL failed, the working full-opinion source now appears in metadata; original failed receipts remain separate in the review evidence.
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