American Gypsum Co. v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

'The American Gypsum Company is engaged in the mining of gypsum, and the preparation, storage and shipment of gypsum products, in Ottawa county, and was defendant in the court of common pleas in an action brought to recover damages for the destruction and injury of certain cars owned by and in the custody of The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company. These cars, on March 22, 1911, were on a sidetrack extending along and over the property of the Gypsum Company and were on that date damaged by an explosion of dynamite situated in a small shanty called a thaw-house, owned and used by…