Rost v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

HOBBY, Judge.

Mollie Rost, joined by her husband John Bost, sued the Missouri Pacific Bailway Company to recover damages for the destruction of certain personal property belonging to her, consisting of houses, fences, and other improvements, near Clear Creek Station, on *170the line of said company’s railway, between Houston and Galveston. The destruction of this property occurred about the 13th February, 1886, and it was alleged' to have been caused by fire communicated by the engine of the company to dry grass and other combustible material along defendant’s track, thence spreading, extending to…