Riceland Foods, Inc. v. Pearson

JIM HANNAH, Chief Justice.

liThis appeal requires us to consider whether, pursuant to Arkansas’s landlord-lien statute, Arkansas Code Annotated section 18-41-101 (Repl.2003), a purchaser of crops has a duty to make a reasonable investigation or inquiry as to whether the seller of crops is a tenant or owner of the farmland on which the crops were produced. The cross-appeal concerns attorneys’ fees and the application of a setoff.

Appellant Riceland Foods, Inc., appeals the circuit court’s order holding Riceland liable for rent that tenant Bob Burress did not pay, under a farm lease that Burress…