Criscola v. Guglielmelli

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding damages for the loss of lettuce crates as a result of a fire started by the defendant husband.

The evidence is in dispute as to the ownership of the lands involved. The trial court found that the defendant husband was a licensee of the premises upon which the fire was started, and that the crates were on land owned by the plaintiffs. The evidence does not clearly preponderate against such findings.

Between eleven o’clock and noon on the morning of September 8, 1955, Earnie T. Guglielmelli kindled a fire on the licensed premises, for the purpose of…