Sessengut v. Posey

This appeal is from a judgment rendered in an action in which John G. Sessengut was the plaintiff and Louisa J. E. Posey was the defendant.

The complaint was in a single paragraph, charging- that on or about the 1st day of October, 1874, the defendant’s building, consisting of brick walls, and situated in the city of Evansville, was burned, leaving the north wall in an unsafe, insecure and tottering condition, and liable to fall over at any time, and that said north wall was negligently penuit-ted to remain in such condition until the 22d day of November, 1874, when it fell over onto the…