Jim Walter Corporation v. Bass

FANNING, Justice.

Plaintiffs M. D. Bass and wife sued Jim Walter Corporation for damages as result of construction defects in a shell house and for further damages to sheet rock, paneling, and other items placed in the shell house by plaintiffs (as well as for further damages to other portions of the shell house constructed originally) which further damages wer occasioned not only by the original defects but also by the further efforts of the said defendant to correct said defects by “jacking up” the house. The shell house was badly built, badly out of line, or out of “plumb”, had serious roof…