Federal Insurance v. Paulk

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict in favor of Jimmy Paulk. The suit was by an apartment complex and its insurer for damages to Paulk’s apartment by a fire which Paulk admitted he caused by leaving a pan of grease on a hot stove while he went to the market. The parties agreed that the damages were $1,243.40 less the $250 insurance deductible which Paulk had already voluntarily paid the apartment complex.

At trial, Paulk pro se testified in his own defense: “. . . the only reason I’m up here is because I don’t think that I owe this $900.00. I honestly don’t think…