Jacobus v. . Colgate

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1916-02-22

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Cardozo, J. This case comes here on a demurrer to a complaint. The plaintiff’s assignors were the owners of a milling plant in Kansas. .More than thirty-three years ago, in August, 1882, the defendant, according to the averments of the complaint, “ wilfully and wantonly ” set fire to the plant and destroyed the mill and its contents. In December, 1913, the owners…

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