Schurgast v. Schumann

In the original action, the plaintiff, Anselm Sehurgast, seeks to recover damages for the destruction by fire of a house which the defendant Eoger M. Schumann had agreed to construct for him. The first count sounds in negligence and sets forth specific acts of negligence by Schumann and his employees, the defendants Louis Corte and Eodney Weed. In the second count, Sehurgast alleges facts for the obvious purpose of relating the essential elements of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. Although no demurrer was addressed to this count, it should be noted that, since there is no allegation of…