County won’t have to pay attorney’s fees for wedding venue

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. In the continuing legal battle between the county and the wedding and entertainment venue known as the Homestead Barn, the latest court action favored the former. In an order issued on Thursday, Dec. 21, Circuit Court Judge Dawn Caloca-Johnson denied a motion for attorney’s fees filed by appellants Sheila and Mark Winchester, the owners/operators of the Homestead Barn. The Winchesters, in their motion, sought for the court to order the county to pay their attorney’s fees, based on an earlier court decision quashing a special magistrate’s findings that had largely supported the county’s case against the Homestead Barn, and which findings the Wi