Long v. MAGNOLIA HOTEL CO.

Mrs. Amelia Long sued the Magnolia Hotel Company, owner of the Vicksburg Hotel at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and M. T. Reed Construction Company for negligently pushing or throwing brick and stone from the tornado damaged wall of the eleventh floor of the hotel building onto her adjacent one-story frame structure which was immediately to the east of the hotel building and was prior to the tornado used as a restaurant. The action of the defendants complained of occurred following the devastating tornado which struck the City of Vicksburg in the late afternoon of Saturday, December 5, 1953. The…