Vandevender v. City of Atlanta

1. In a suit by the owner of certain household goods contained in a dwelling occupied by her as her residence in the City of Atlanta, against the City of Atlanta, for' damages, founded on the acts of the firemen in blowing-up the house in which her goods were contained, and thereby destroying the goods in order to prevent the extension of a conflagration, the petition alleged, among other things, the following in substance: Plaintiff was prevented from removing her property from the house, by one of the men of the fire department of the city, who was exercising supervision and control, and…