Case ID: njl_125/html/0323-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bodine, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PASQUALE LATRONICA, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. ZARIFA (ALSO KNOWN AS ZARAFA) DAMERGY AND SAID DAMERGY, DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS.
    Argued October 2, 1940
    Decided October 18, 1940.
    
      Before Justices Bodine and Porter.
    For the defendants-appellants, Willner & Willner (Herman Willner).
    
    For the plaintiff-respondent, Carmen LaCurrubba and Herbert G. A. Muller.
    
   Bodine, J.

The parties to this suit were adjoining property owners. The defendants had employed a plumber to install on their premises a hot water heater attached to an oil burner. The hot water attachment, during the time the plumber was still checking the operation thereof, exploded because of lack of water damaging plaintiff’s premises for which the District Court awarded damages. This was error. There was no proof that the explosion was due to defendants’ negligence. Marshall v. Welwood, 38 N. J. L. 339.

There was no proof that the plumber was known to be an unskillful or improper person to do the work. Cuff v. Newark, New York Railroad Co., 35 N. J. L. 17; Sarno v. Gulf Refining Co., 99 Id. 340; affirmed, 102 Id. 223.

The plaintiff having failed to establish a right of recovery the judgment is reversed.