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MASTERSON v. ATHERTON

149 Conn. 302 (1962)

FRANCES T. MASTERSON, ADMINISTRATRIX (ESTATES OF GERALD T. MASTERSON, SR., AND GERALD T. MASTERSON, JR.), ET AL. v. NELLIE ATHERTON

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided January 16, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. McGowan, with whom was John J. Cotter, for the appellant (defendant).

Theodore I. Koskoff, with whom was Joseph W. Knott, for the appellees (plaintiffs).

BALDWIN, C. J., KING, MURPHY, ALCORN and MACDONALD, JS.

KING, J.

Shortly after 1 a.m. on January 6, 1959, a very cold and windy night, a fire broke out in the cellar of the north duplex apartment in a two-family house in Stratford owned by the defendant. The apartment was occupied under an oral month-tomonth tenancy by the Masterson family, consisting of the plaintiff Frances T. Masterson's decedent and husband, Gerald T. Masterson, Sr.; Frances T. Masterson herself; and their...

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