Peerless Manufacturing Co. v. Bagley
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Frazer, J. Case by the Peerless Manufacturing Company against John N. Bagley and others for negligence in the construction of a sprinkler system in premises leased to plaintiff. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants bring error. The facts in this case are undisputed. Plaintiff was engaged in the manufacture of clothing, and was tenant of a building owned by defendants.
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Error to Wayne; Frazer, J. Case by the Peerless Manufacturing Company against John N. Bagley and others for negligence in the construction of a sprinkler system in premises leased to plaintiff. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants bring error. The facts in this case are undisputed. Plaintiff was engaged in the manufacture of clothing, and was tenant of a building owned by defendants. Throughout the building had been placed a number of water pipes, constituting an automatic sprinkler system, intended for extinguishing fire. On an extremely hot Sunday, — July 4, 189?, — in the afternoon, a…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
(after stating the facts). It appears conceded that there was evidence of negligence on the part of' the General Fire Extinguisher Company in putting in the sprinkler heads in the skylight arranged to fuse at 155°. That temperature proved too low. They should have been arranged to fuse at a higher temperature. The sprinkler plant was installed in September. In the following July, with a temperature outside at 94°, one of the sprinkler heads fused. A few days afterwards the remaining sprinkler head, when the temperature outside was about the same, fused when the temperature in the skylight had…
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