Abresch v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.

Knutson, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment entered pursuant to an order of the court granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment.

This action was commenced to recover damages suffered by plaintiff in a fire in which his building was destroyed. A pretrial deposition of plaintiff was taken, and the following facts appear from the pleadings and such deposition.

Plaintiff owned and operated a business, specializing in cleaning and reconditioning barrels and drums, in a large one-story frame building located in Washington County in this state. Defendant furnished plaintiff with telephone service,…