The Hartford Circus Fire ~ July 6, 1944
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The Great Hartford Circus Fire:
Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters

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The Great Hartford Circus Fire: Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters
The Great Hartford Circus Fire: Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters by Henry S. Cohn and David Bollier

In this book Henry S. Cohn and David Bollier tell the sotry of this catastrophic circus fire and its remarkable legal aftermath. They describe how, with little guidance from existing case law and many quarrels and uncertainties, three enterprising young lawyers secured a court-supervised receivership that kept the circus in business, enabling it to generate profits that could pay off the claims brought against it.

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