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LEWIS v. FIRESTONE

No. 1921.

130 A.2d 317 (1957)

Roy ST. LEWIS, Executor, Estate of Eleanor Sandman Dixon, Appellant, v. Isadore L. FIRESTONE, in his own name and to the use of the Boston Insurance Company, a corporation, Appellee

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided March 22, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl L. Shipley, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Julius Poms, Washington, D. C., with whom Lewis Jacobs and Sidney S. Sachs, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.

ROVER, Chief Judge.

This was a nonjury negligence action for property damage in the apartment occupied by the appellee caused by smoke from a fire originating in the adjacent apartment of appellant's decedent, both being located in the same apartment house. The fire which resulted in the death of appellant's decedent and the damage by smoke to the appellee's property occurred on the morning of March 8, 1955. While counsel for appellee does not assert a specific act...

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