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GORDON v. PEVETTY

138 Conn. 287 (1951)

JOHN G. GORDON ET AL. v. WILLIAM PEVETTY ET AL. WILLIAM PEVETTY v. THE H. P. HALLOCK COMPANY

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided August 14, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Beers, with whom was Alfred F. Celentano, for the appellant (plaintiff and defendant Pevetty).

Jerome Hershey, for the appellees (plaintiffs in first case).

Arthur Klein, with whom, on the brief, was Robert J. Woodruff, for the appellee (defendant in second case).

BROWN, C. J., JENNINGS, BALDWIN, INGLIS and O'SULLIVAN, JS.

BROWN, C. J.

These two cases were tried together. In the first, the plaintiffs Gordon, husband and wife, who were tenants of a house owned by the defendant Pevetty, sued him and the defendant Hallock Company, which had installed an oil burner therein for Pevetty, to recover for damage to their clothing and other personal property caused by smoke emitted by the burner, in consequence of the alleged negligence of the defendants. In the second, Pevetty sued the Hallock...

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