Intentional and accidental fire. Rich man wishing to get rid of a neighbor's tree sets it afire. Neighbor's house catches and burns. Must pay four times value of tree since fire is intentional, but only actual value of house, since that fire was accidental

Motif

Intentional and accidental fire. Rich man wishing to get rid of a neighbor's tree sets it afire. Neighbor's house catches and burns. Must pay four times value of tree since fire is intentional, but only actual value of house, since that fire was accidental.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Clever judicial decisions. · view the constellation · filed as J1175.2

Cited in the index

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 625.

Within the index

Filed under Judgments concerning arson.

Filed beside it

The cat in the warehouse. One of four companions is left in a warehouse to care for a cat which has a broken leg. Cat scratches self near flame and sets warehouse afire. The three must pay the one left behind. Broken leg could not walk and it was the three legs belonging to the three traders which caused the fire

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