Shackelford v. West Central Electric Cooperative, Inc.

CLARK, Presiding Judge.

Respondents, plaintiffs below, had judgment for property damages in the amount of $126,800.00 for the loss of a residence structure by fire. Appealing the judgment against it, appellant in the dispositive point asserts that respondents’ evidence did not make a submissible case for the jury and a verdict for appellant should have been directed at the close of the evidence. Reversed.

The ultimate question of fact in the case and the pivot upon which the issue of liability was balanced was whether an act or omission of appellant caused the destructive fire. The evidence…