NEGLIGENCE-SPREAD OF FIRE-"NEW YORK RULE."

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The properties of plaintiff and defendant were separated by a city street. While filling a gasoline tank on his premises defendant allowed the tank to overflow, the escaping gasoline ignited, the fire spread to a warehouse on defendant's property and thence, across the street, to plaintiff's buildings. Held, that the negligence of the defendant was the proximate cause of the injury to the plaintiff, within the so-called "New York Rule" of limited liability in such cases, inasmuch as the titles of the two parties ran to the center of the street. Homac Corporation v. Sun Oil Co., 244 N. Y. S. 51.

Recommended Citation

NEGLIGENCE-SPREAD OF FIRE-"NEW YORK RULE.", 29 Mich. L. Rev. 641 (1931).
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