SOUTHERN APARTMENTS, INC. v. EMMETT

6 Div. 395.

114 So.2d 453 (1959)

SOUTHERN APARTMENTS, INC., v. Mildred EMMETT.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied September 17, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. J. Sullivan, Jr., and Sadler, Sadler, Sullivan & Herring, Birmingham, for appellant.

Jenkins & Cole, Birmingham, for appellee.


MERRILL, Justice.

Appellee, a tenant, sued appellant, the owner of the apartment occupied by appellee, for injuries to her right hand and index finger. The count on which the case was submitted to the jury alleged that the appellant negligently performed certain repair work which it undertook to perform on a handle in appellee's bathtub, proximately resulting in appellee's injury.

Appellant's pleas were the general issue and contributory negligence. The verdict...

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