Wisconsin Supreme Court May 17, 1938 (O'Connell v. Old Line Life Insurance Co. of America)

The following opinion was filed March 15, 1938:

Fairchild, J.

Assuming that there was originally on defendant’s part a want of the care and attention required by the circumstance of leaving smoldering material in the old cellar where the burning of the waste had been done, subsequent events had ended the relation of time, place, and persons which might have existed earlier when the fire was