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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Stacy finds the trial court properly entered judgment in favor of the contractor in this suit arising from a residential construction project regarding which contractual specifications and dollar amounts changed, resulting in a cessation of work and the contractor's seeking of payment for work completed. During a conference to get a ruling on proposed exhibit admissibility, the property owner requested “some direction from the court before the jury comes in”, which was effectively an oral motion in limine. A ruling on a motion in limine is not a final ruling, the question of admissibility being the basis of the owner's appeal. The non-final ruling does not present a question for review. Because the contractor successfully foreclosed on its lien, nothing establishes wrongful deprivation to support an award of attorney fees. Affirmed in part.