Mountain Motor Fuel Co. v. Rivers

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Teller.

The defendant in error recovered a judgment against the plaintiffs in error in an action for damages from the burning of an automobile in a garage owned by defendant Quine, but occupied by a lessee. .

The complaint charged that the defendants had been negligent in the following particulars: That the Fuel Company drove a gasoline tank motor truck into said garage, and negligently backed it against the wall, so that the gasoline in the tank was spilled upon the floor, whence it “flowed down through the floor of the said garage in and upon the furnace, or heating…