InTown Lessee Associates, LLC v. Howard

KITCHENS, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Michael Howard and Shannon Poole were awarded a four-million-dollar jury verdict against InTown,1 an extended-stay motel, for injuries each sustained as victims of an armed robbery in the motel. Aggrieved, InTown appealed. Finding no error, this Court affirms the trial court’s judgment.

Facts

¶ 2. Michael Keith Howard and Shannon Poole had rented a room at InTown in June 2008, where the couple temporarily resided while waiting for a home to become available in Belhaven, a residential area in Jackson, Mississippi. On June 27, 2008, at approximately 9:30 p.m.,…