Legal Opinion
Southern Gas Corporation v. Brooks
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided April 28, 1961PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCarney, J.
The plaintiffs below, L. T. Brooks, Hamp Brooks, George Brooks, Willie Meachem, Albert Davis, Booker T. Hunt and Guy Brooks, as trustees of the Mt. Pleasant Colored Methodist Episcopal Church recovered a judgment of $9,000 against the defendant, Southern Gas Corporation, for the destruction by fire of the church building and contents. $7,500 represented the value of the building and $1,500 the value of the contents destroyed by the fire.
From this judgment Southern Gas Corporation has appealed in error and filed six assignments of error all of which raise the one question whether the. Trial…
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