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AMERICAN NATIONAL FIRE INS. CO. v. SCHUSS

(14369)

221 Conn. 768 (1992)

AMERICAN NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY ET AL. v. JOHN SCHUSS ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released April 28, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Shaw, for the appellant (named plaintiff).

Lois Tanzer, with whom, on the brief, was Thomas O. Anderson, for the appellee (defendant Barry Schuss).

PETERS, C. J., SHEA, COVELLO, BORDEN and BERDON, JS.

BORDEN, J.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the plaintiff, American National Fire Insurance Company,1 produced sufficient evidence for a jury to find that the defendant, Barry Schuss,2 acted negligently, rather than intentionally, when he set fire to a synagogue in West Hartford in the early morning hours of August 11, 1983. The fire destroyed, among other things, the synagogue's Torah scrolls...

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