Jerome Thriftway Drug v. Everett Winslow

This is an appeal from judgments entered in favor of owners of property and their tenants in an action brought by adjacent property owner to recover for damages sustained when a fire in defendants' building spread to plaintiffs' adjoining property. We affirm. A building complex in Wendell, Idaho, housed a drug store, a department store, and three doctors' offices. Plaintiffs-appellants (hereinafter Hamilton Drug), owned and operated the Hamilton Drug Store which occupied the southern portion of the complex. the Wendell Department Store was adjacent to the drug store, and the two buildings shared a common wall. The department store had been built by and had been in the MacQuivey-Trounson family for many years. The defendants Winslows had been tenants in the department store building since 1978. The northern side of the complex contained three separate doctors' offices. The entire complex was bordered by two streets and two alleys.