PAYNE v. WOODARD


227 S.W.2d 47 (1949)

PAYNE v. WOODARD et al. (two cases). REED v. WOODARD et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing Denied March 17, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe C. Thomason and Frank L. Flynn, Knoxville, for plaintiffs in error.

Grimm & Tapp, Knoxville, for Gilpin and Lee.

A. J. Hartman and John M. Thornburgh, Knoxville, for Woodard.


PREWITT, Justice.

These three cases come from the Circuit Court of Knox County, and grow out of the same state of facts.

The plaintiffs registered at the Cumberland Hotel in Knoxville on the evening of March 7, 1945, and were assigned to the same room on the west end of the third floor of the hotel. A fire occured in the early morning of March 8, 1945, and the three plaintiffs, in an effort to escape, jumped through a sky well from the third floor of the hotel...

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