Arneil v. Schnitzer

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, based upon a verdict. The judgment was entered in an action in which the plaintiff charged that the defendants so negligently maintained their premises that a fire started thereon and, escaping therefrom, destroyed property belonging to the plaintiff and other properties belonging to twenty-four individuals who assigned their claims to him. The total sum awarded by the challenged judgment is $8,166.48.

The assignments of error are six in number. The first is based upon an order which denied a motion made by the…