187 Iowa 518 | Iowa | 1919
The plaintiff is a resident of the town of Pisgah. The defendants constitute a copartnership, engaged in a general merchandise business in the same town. The alleged wrongdoing which the plaintiff charges against the defendants is as follows:
“That, as a part of its said business, and in connection therewith, said defendants kept, in a building situated on Lots 1, 2, and 3, Block 5, of the town of Pisgah, Iowa, about 350 gallons of gasoline, and about 250 gallons of coal oil in and about said building; that the said building in which said gasoline and coal oil were kept in and about was a small building, and was located near the alley running north and south just west of said premises. That said gasoline and coal oil were highly inflammable substances. * * * Plaintiff further states that, on or about the 29th day of August, A. D. 1917, there was a fire set or broke out in said building in which said gasoline and coal oil was kept