George R. Lane & Associates, Inc. v. Thomasson

Birdsong, Judge.

In this wrongful death action brought by the. another of a deceased minor child who drowned in a swimming-pool of the apartment complex owned and managed by appellants, the case was tried pursuant to a consolidated pretrial order agreed to and signed by counsel for all parties. The pretrial agreement, in effect, required the jury to weigh contentions of comparative negligence. As stipulated therein, the plaintiffs contentions were that she was a leaseholder and resided with her husband and 30-month-old child in an apartment owned and managed by the appellants, that a swimming…