Sahr v. City of North Tonawanda

Order reversed on the law and the facts, with costs, and order granted awarding petitioners the sum of 83,000. Certain findings of fact and conclusion of law disapproved and reversed, and new finding of fact and conclusion of law made. Memorandum: We do not regard it as fatal to recovery that decedent caused the fire by his own negligence, or that no fire alarm had been turned in, or that decedent may have been actuated, in part, by the personal motive to save the life he had placed in peril. (Matter of Hommel v. Town of Saugerties, 253 App. Div, 84.) The duty to save a life threatened by…