Atlanta & Saint Andrews Bay Railway Co. v. Chilean Nitrate Sales Corp.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal by the defendant below, Chilean Nitrate Sales Corporation and a cross-defendant, Smith Stevedoring & Forwarding Company, Inc., challenges the correctness of the trial court’s granting summary judgment which determined that Chilean, the lessee of the building leased to it by Atlanta and Saint Andrews Bay Railway Company, was liable for the cost of repairing fire damage to the building and equipment covered by the lease. Having found by summary judgment that the lessee was liable, the trial court, by consent of the parties, fixed the amount of damages…