Moore v. Standard Paint & Glass Co. of Pueblo

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court or by name.

On August 29, 1953, the Central Building in Pueblo, Colorado, was destroyed by fire. The same fire destroyed the adjoining building owned by Standard Paint and Glass Company. Shortly thereafter, Standard commenced to rebuild its building. In doing so, it lowered its former basement level, put in a reinforced wall between its basement and the hole in the ground that had once been the basement of the Central Building. The *153owners of the property upon which the Central Building had been located did not reconstruct…