Ken and Peggy Bostic v. East Construction Co.

PECK, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants perfected this appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for defendant-appellee in this diversity action for damages arising from destruction of personal property in a fire.

Appellants brought this action against appellee, the builder, part owner and manager of a Florence, Kentucky, apartment building, alleging that appellee’s failure to provide fire extinguishers resulted in the destruction by fire of most of their furniture and other belongings because of their inability to extinguish a fire which was accidentally started in their kitchen. The…