Crow v. Evans

Sognier, Judge.

Danny Evans, a tenant at Morrow College Apartments, brought suit against the apartments’ owner, Robert Glickman, managing agent The Lane Company, and former managers Dot Sewell and Ricky Crow, to recover compensatory and punitive damages for injuries sustained when the bathroom floor next to the tub in his apartment collapsed while he was bathing his child. The trial court directed a verdict in favor of The Lane Company as to punitive damages; the jury returned a verdict in Evans’ favor against all defendants including The Lane Company for compensatory damages, and in favor of…