Wieszczecinski v. Village of Sloan

Order modified on the law by reducing the award to the sum of $1,500 and by striking out the provision for costs, and, as modified, affirmed, without costs of this appeal to either party. Memorandum: The habit which the Sloan firemen and the Doyle firemen had of responding to fire alarms in each other’s districts did not have the force of custom amounting to law, especially in view of the fact that formal negotiations between the authorities of the two fire districts never resulted in any agreement in respect to mutual assistance in matters of fire protection. We must regard the habit of…