Mazer v. Hazard Realty Corporation

Opinion of the Court by

Crear, Commissioner—

Affirming.

About the year 1923 D. Y. Combs completed a 5-story hotel building on Main street in Hazard, the foundation of which was made of native stone and the walls of brick and stone. The interior of the building consisted of steel framing, reinforced concrete, etc. The lot on which the building stood fronted on Main street, a distance of approximately 80 feet and ran back the same width to the Kentucky river. The building which was about 72 by 125 feet was partially destroyed by fire in 1928.

In the meantime D. Y. Combs died and his widow and heirs…