State Asked to Pay $100,000 Loss
A case is now before the Court of Claims, New York, which if approved, will open up an entirely new angle to the fire loss and insurance question. A way will be opened, it is said, for insurance companies to collect from the state each time losses are sustained because cities fail to supply the proper fire protection. In part, the petition reads:
"That on or about the seventh day of June, 1936, this claimant, who was in the warehousing business with offices and warehouse located at Nos. 126-140 Odell Street, Schenectady, N. Y., suffered great damage to his property and the property of others, when his warehouse and the contents thereof were completely destroyed as the result of a fire of unknown origin in a building nearby which spread to claimant’s warehouse by reason of the failure on the part of the State of New York, its agents, servants and employees upon promptly being notified of the fire, in omitting and neglecting, after said notice, to supply or furnish sufficient or adequate quantities of water with adequate pressure sufficient to extinguish the fire before it reached the warehouse of the claimant. . . .
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