Bell v. Colony Apartments Co., Ltd.

These cases come to this Court on consolidated appeals, and involve the issue of whether the trial court erred in entering summary judgment in favor of the defendant in negligence and breach of lease actions filed against it by the plaintiffs. The claims grew out of a fire at an apartment complex in Montgomery where the plaintiffs lived.

FACTS

On October 21, 1987, responding to a complaint made by plaintiff Julie Strickland, who was a tenant in Colony Apartments, Paul Pritchett and Marian Sheffield, two employees of the apartment complex, arrived at Strickland's apartment in order to repair her…