World Fire & Marine Insurance v. Alliance Sandblasting Co.

On April 13th, 1925, the Alliance Sandblasting Company contracted for the removal of the paint from a house in Hartford’, owned by one Merrow. The contract called for the use of lime and caustic soda, but this method proving ineffective it was subsequently agreed by the parties that the paint should be removed by burning with torches. On April 21st, while two of defendant’s employees were engaged in the work, using kerosene torches, a fire broke out in the roof of the building above the point where the men were working and the premises were damaged thereby. The plaintiff, in consequence, paid…