Hagin v. Powers

Webb, Judge.

As a result of a fire in a unit of an apartment complex, five complaints were filed by tenants of the unit against James Hagin and Doug Stacks, d/b/a Hagin-Stacks Company. It was alleged that the fire damage sustained by the various plaintiffs was proximately caused by the failure of defendant plumbers to use ordinary care in making repairs to the plumbing of the building occupied by plaintiffs.

The cases were tried together before the court without the intervention of a jury, resulting in a judgment in favor of the tenants in each of the cases. The trial court found that the fire…