Johnson v. Palmer College Foundation

This is an appeal from a trial court judgment awarding plaintiff Victor C. Johnson $18,220 actual damages and $5000 exemplary damages against defendant Palmer College Foundation. Palmer was the successor lessor of a building Johnson leased in which to operate his machine shop. Johnson claimed damages from demolition, from water caused by vandals who turned faucets on in vacant apartments about his premises and from rain water that came into those apartments through broken windows. Palmer appeals raising questions of law and sufficiency of the evidence.

Initially, Palmer asserts there was an…