Dillon v. Hunt

The only question we have to consider in this case is, whether the petition states a cause of action. It states that, at the dates hereinafter mentioned, the plaintiffs were the lessees and occupiers of a store-room in which they had a stock of goods, and that the defendant was the owner of an adjoining building five stories high. It then continues as follows: —

“ Plaintiffs further state that on or about the fourteenth day of November, 1877, the interior .and combustible portion of said building, owned by defendant as aforesaid, were destroyed by fire, and certain interior and exterior brick…