Lyman Lamb Co. v. Ark. Shell Homes

G-eorge Rose Smith, Justice.

For about two years Arkansas Shell Homes, Inc., acting as a contractor, built shell houses for landowners in Pulaski county. The venture ended in Shell’s bankruptcy. The appellant, Lyman Lamb Company, was Shell’s principal source of material for some 150' houses. When the company became insolvent it owed a number of accounts to Lamb, five of which are now in issue. *

Lamb filed five suits to enforce materialman’s liens against five of the houses, joining Shell and the various landowners as defendants. The cases were consolidated in the court below. The chancellor…