Cawley v. Northern Waste Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract or tort, with a declaration in two counts, by the owner and lessor of premises on Phoenix Avenue in Lowell against the lessee for damages resulting from a fire upon the premises alleged to have been caused by the defendant.
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Contract or tort, with a declaration in two counts, by the owner and lessor of premises on Phoenix Avenue in Lowell against the lessee for damages resulting from a fire upon the premises alleged to have been caused by the defendant. Writ dated November 17, 1919. The plaintiff filed eight specifications, all but one of which were solely to the effect that the cause of the fire and loss to the plaintiff was a failure of the defendant to comply with the law and the ordinance of the city of Lowell, described below, and the rules and regulations of the national board of fire underwriters in the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is “an action in contract or tort” brought by the owner and lessor of a building against the lessee to recover damages arising from a fire in the demised premises during the term. The lease contained provisions authorizing the defendant as lessee to install motors and necessary wires for carrying the electric current for use in the building, the same to be and remain the property of the lessee. The defendant covenanted “not to make or suffer any waste of said premises.”
The plaintiff offered in evidence an ordinance of the city of Lowell providing for an inspector of wires and purporting…
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