Killings v. Enterprise Leasing Co., Inc.

STUART, Justice.

After Thomas O’Troy Killings was injured in an automobile accident in May 2004, he sued in the Mobile Circuit Court the manufacturer of the van he was driving at the time of the accident and various other entities that had performed maintenance on that van. Enterprise Leasing Company, Inc., owned the van, and when it sold the wrecked van for scrap, Killings added Enterprise Leasing as a defendant, claiming that it had negligently allowed evidence crucial to his pending action against the other defendants to be destroyed. After the other defendants were dismissed from the case,…