HOAGLAND v. GOMEZ


290 N.J. Super. 550 (1996)

676 A.2d 187

MICHELLE D. HOAGLAND AND CARRIE HOAGLAND, PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS, v. WILLIAM GOMEZ, BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND T/A G & J GOMEZ, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT, AND TOWNSHIP OF EAST BRUNSWICK, JOHN DOE (NAME BEING FICTITIOUS), JOHN MYRECK, RICHARD WORLEY AND WENDY COLLIER, DEFENDANTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided May 30, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Borrus, Goldin, Foley, Vignuolo, Hyman & Stahl, attorneys for appellants (Anthony B. Vignuolo and Eileen M. Foley, on the brief).

Robert A. Auerbach, attorney for respondent William Gomez (Randi S. Greenberg, of counsel and on the brief).

Before Judges MUIR, Jr. and BROCHIN.


The opinion of the court was delivered by BROCHIN, J.A.D.

While plaintiff Michelle Hoagland was a social invitee in a one-family house in East Brunswick which her hosts were renting from defendant William Gomez, she was badly burned as the result of a fire that was started by food cooking on a burner of an electric stove in the kitchen and that quickly spread throughout the house. She sued Mr. Gomez, the landlord,...

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