McGee v. Heim

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sutton.

The parties are here in the same order they appeared in the trial court and will be so referred to or by name.

Richard and Mary McGee were the owners of a small building, part of which they occupied as a residence, and a part of which was rented to the defendant Ed Heim for use as a machine shop. On a day in October 1956, Heim was alone at the shop doing some metalizing when a fire broke out. He immediately obtained and emptied a nearby fire extinguisher but was unable to control the fire. He thereupon warned Mrs. McGee and summoned the aid of nearby packing house…