Waibel v. Sprecher

DYCHE, Judge.

Appellant initiated this action to recover money damages for the injuries he received when he broke into appellee’s burning home to rescue her children, whom he thought were inside the dwelling. The fire was started by an electrical overload caused by the use of multiple electric space heaters on the same circuit. No one was actually inside the dwelling at the time of the fire.

The case was tried to a jury for two days; the jury found, by interrogatory, that appellee had not failed to exercise ordinary care in the operation of the heaters. From a judgment based on this verdict…