HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
Questions of the negligence of a landlord, the defendant, of causation and of the contributory negligence of the tenant, a plaintiff, of his wife and their infant child, who was burned severely by flames from a gas log in the rented house, all are presented for decision in this case, in which the trial judge directed a verdict for the landlord.
The triers of fact could have found the following from the testimony...
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