Honey Creek Corp. v. WNC Development Co.

This case arose when the cooler unit of an air conditioning system was damaged because it failed to stop operating after the stop button was pushed by an employee of defendant-appellee, Sears Roebuck & Co. (Sears and/or Tenant), a tenant in Honey Creek Square Shopping Center of Terre Haute. Due to the sale of the shopping center, a corporate merger, and a corporate name change, a complicated fact situation arose as to the party who would ultimately have to bear the loss. To the credit of all the parties involved, it was stipulated that the original landlord, defendant-appellant North Park…