Sanders v. Walker

Steele Hays, Justice.

Appellant Charles B. Sanders, doing business as Fayetteville Marine, brought this action against appellee Hila Mae Walker for damages resulting from a fire in a building which housed Sanders’s retail boat business. The building, constructed around 1965, belonged to Ms. Walker and was occupied by Sanders under a verbal lease on a month to month basis. Sanders had been in the building since 1982, and the loss occurred on February 19, 1987.

Sanders’s complaint alleged that he was entitled to a recovery based on negligence, express and implied warranties of habitability, and…