Downs v. Longfellow Corporation

JACKSON, Justice.

This is a consolidated action by several former tenants of the Longfellow apartment house in Tulsa, Oklahoma, against the owner and operator thereof to recover damages for loss and damage of personal property arising out of a fire which virtually destroyed the apartment house on the night of April 24, 1956. At the close of plaintiffs’ evidence, the trial court sustained defendant corporation’s demurrer thereto, and plaintiffs appeal.

The decisive question is whether plaintiffs’ evidence construed liberally in favor of plaintiffs, is sufficient to support a reasonable inference…