Claim of Finnegan v. Biehn

Joseph Bums and Catherine Burns were husband and wife, and were employed as janitor and janitress of an apartment house in New York city. The building was about to be demolished and all of the tenants had moved out; and the Bums couple had engaged another apartment, and were to leave January 2, 1935. The building was known as a “ cold water ” apartment house, because neither heat nor hot water was provided by the owner for the occupants. As a part of their compensation the Burns couple were provided with an apartment which they heated themselves by the use of an oil stove, which they owned…