Hettenbaugh v. Keyes-Ozon-Fincher Insurance

Appellants, plaintiffs below, seek reversal of an adverse final judgment entered subsequent to the trial court’s direction of a verdict in favor of the appellees at the close of the appellants’ case. We affirm.

The appellants brought this action for damages alleging that by reason of the ap-pellees’ negligent failure to write a liability policy on their apartment house, they had been forced to expend $15,500 in defending and settling a personal injury action brought by one of their tenants. The complaint alleged, inter alia, that the appellants purchased an apartment house and were advised at…