Corpaci v. Raymond

This is an action of tort in which the plaintiff seeks to recover for damage to his personal property on the basis that the defendants negligently permitted certain sprinkler system pipes attached to the ceiling of a common passageway, which the plaintiffs and other tenants had a right to use, to remain unprotected from the cold, so that the pipes froze and burst, resulting in water flowing onto the floor of the passageway and into the basement of the leased building, and damaging the plaintiff’s property.

The plaintiff began his tenancy sometime in the year 1953. The leased premises adjoined…