Aronson v. Bumstead

This is an action of contract or tort in which the plaintiffs seek to recover damages to their real estate allegedly caused by the defendant’s negligent use of a presto blow torch in repairing a leak in a radiator on the plaintiffs’ premises. The defendant’s answer is a general denial, a special denial of negligence and a plea of contributory negligence.

At the trial there was evidence tending to *54show that on or about April 12, 1956 the defendant, who had been engaged in the plumbing business in Malden for thirty-five years, was called by the plaintiffs to their premises for the purpose of…