Stewart-McGehee Construction Co. v. Brewster & Riley Feed Manufacturing Co.

These were separate actions filed in the Jefferson Circuit Court by the appellees, material furnishers, against the appellants. The complaints alleged, in substance, that the respective plaintiffs had furnished material to one J. C. Shepherd, which material was used in the Hippodrome Theater building in the city of Pine Bluff, and which material had not been paid for; that Shepherd was a subcontractor of the Stewart-McGehee Construction Company, hereafter called company, and had a contract for building the theater; that the company was liable to the appellees under a bond containing the…