Westin Hotels, Inc. v. Natkin Service Co.

Beasley, Judge.

Plaintiff Westin Hotels, Inc., appeals from a directed verdict judgment favoring defendant Natkin Service Company in a suit for negligence in servicing the air conditioning system in Westin’s Peach-tree Plaza Hotel.

Natkin was under contract to service, repair and monitor the Plaza’s cold generator machines. Natkin’s employee, Lunsford, was sent in response to the call of Westin’s chief engineer to service one of its three chiller units, which was not producing enough cold water to adequately chill the hotel. A few hours after the repairman Lunsford left, pipes of the unit he…