AETNA INS. CO. v. REYNOLDS


278 A.D. 1004 (1951)

Aetna Insurance Company et al., Appellants, v. Raymond H. Reynolds et al., Doing Business as Binghamton Service & Painting Company, et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

June 29, 1951.


Plaintiffs brought these actions against the defendant, a painting copartnership, and one of its employees, charging them with negligence in causing fire damage to a church building which the painting firm was under contract to repaint. Plaintiffs' evidence established that fire damage was occasioned by defendants' use of a blowtorch in burning off old paint from a fluted column in the front of the church. Such method of preparation for the repainting job was authorized by...

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