Bray v. Latham

Bleckley, Chief Justice.

The action was by a tenant and his wife against their landlord, and was based upon an alleged arson committed by the defendant when overinsured upon the premises and upon a storehouse adjoining, with a stock of goods therein, the imputed motive of the burning being to destroy the property and collect the insurance. The fire occurred shortly after midnight, in winter weather, and consumed both buildings. The wife, it was alleged, barely escaped with life;, suffered from"fright, exertion and exposure; caught cold in the night air whilst trying, without clothes,' to save…