District of Columbia Court of Appeals February 26, 1974, No. 7327 (Firemen's Insurance Co. of Washington v. Amerada Hess Corp.)

NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

The issue at trial was whether a homeowner who responded affirmatively to a heating oil contractor’s annual return-postcard offer to clean the oil furnace acquired a contract right to have the flue cleaned, a *838failure to have done so having caused the home and its contents to be soiled.