Union Storage Co. v. McIntyre

KERN, Associate Judge:

■ Appellees sued appellant, a warehouseman in the District of Columbia, for the value of certain furniture and household items which they had stored with it. The trial court sitting without a jury heard evidence that shortly before dawn on Sunday, February 16, 1964, a deranged 1 police officer, while on duty, reached between the iron bars 2 covering a ground floor window in appellant’s warehouse located at 628 O Street, N.W., removed a protective wire-mesh screen wired to the window frame, broke a pane in the window and poured burning trash through it. He continued to…