Hicks v. New York Fire Insurance

Defendants’ only contention is that the evidence does not sustain the jury’s finding. The residence was equipped with an oil-burning hot-water heating system. At the time in question plaintiffs were in Florida. They had provided a friend, Flerbert Lange, with a key to the house. When he entered the house on February 26, 1950, he found that a radiator on the third floor was leaking and that the water had soaked the entire first and second floors. Plumbers were called and found a broken radiator on the third floor. They turned off the water in the basement, shut off the burner, disconnected the…