Porterfield v. Life Casualty Co. of Tennessee

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

The Life & Casualty Company of Tennessee, a corporation, the defendant in the court below and appellee here, owned an apartment house located on Lakeshore Drive in Jefferson County, Alabama, and known as Lakeshore Apartments. The apartment house was destroyed by fire on the night of December 23, 1937.

Mrs. Clara N. Porterfield and eleven other tenants and lessees of the defendant, who occupied apartments in the Lakeshore Apartments at the time it was destroyed, filed their separate suits against the defendant in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, claiming…