Allegretti v. Murphy-Miles Oil Co.

By this appeal defendant, Murphy-Miles Oil Company, seeks to reverse a judgment for $9,533 entered against it in an action tried by the court without' a jury for damages to personal property owned by plaintiffs, alleged to have been caused by reason of defendant’s negligence. At the close of all the evidence the court found the other defendant, Norwin Building Corporation, not guilty.

It appears that plaintiffs were in the business of manufacturing Neon and other signs, and occupied as tenants the first floor and basement, except the 15 by 25 feet portion thereof used as the boiler room, of…