Appellants, S. S. Amerson and Emma Amerson, his wife, sought damages for $10,000, less $2,965 collected by way of insurance, from appellee, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. They alleged their barn and its contents burned down because of appellee's negligence in failing to put through to the fire department a telephone call.
On the night of July 18, 1954, the barn caught fire after being...
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