Watenpaugh v. L. L. Coryell & Son

Landis, District Judge.

The principal question for decision is whether the judgment on the verdict rendered in the court below for plaintiff, Irvin E. Watenpaugh, against the defendants L. L.. Coryell & Son, a corporation, and its employee Emil A.. Hebei, for damages to personal property, situated on adjacent premises, destroyed by fire alleged to have been *609caused by negligence, is sustained by sufficient evidence.

Defendants joined issue by general denial to plaintiff’s claim of negligence set out in his petition as:

“That on the premises occupied by the defendants * * * was a certain room,…