Jefferson Standard Life Ins. Co. v. Watson

BROWN, Justice.

This is an action on the case by the infant daughter of the lessee of one of the apartments in- the Manchester Terrace Apartments, in the City of Birmingham, against the lessor, seeking to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained as a consequence of a folding bed in the apartment on which she slept coming loose and collapsing, and enfolding the plaintiff in said bed.

The case was submitted to the jury on “Count A” of the complaint added thereto by amendment, and defendant’s plea of the general issue, pleaded in short by consent with leave to give in…