Hurley Pickett Lake Farms, Inc. v. Sullivan

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

In 1965 Abe Jones was the lessee of farm lands from Hurley Pickett Lake Farms, Inc. W. F. Sullivan was a regular employee of Jones, and while destroying a wasp nest outside a building on the leased lands, Sullivan negligently set fire to the building and it was destroyed. Lake Farms sued Jones and Sullivan in the Jackson County Circuit Court for $18,000 damages. A jury trial resulted in a judgment for $3,000 in favor of Lake Farms against Sullivan only, and Lake Farms has appealed. It relies on the following points for reversal:

“The trial court erred in overruling…