Dreeves v. Schoenberg

*336The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturn, J.

The defendant, Schoenberg, was the owner of premises, consisting of a three-story frame tenement building, in Jersey City, in which was a store occupied by the plaintiff as a tenant. The floor above the store was occupied by another tenant, one Albanesius.

On February 10th, 1910, water was found to be flowing from frozen pipes out under the door of the plaintiff’s, store, and an examination disclosed the fact that the water had frozen in the pipes in the hallway, resulting in the bursting of the pipes, from which the water flowed, damaging…