Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Moreland

1. In a suit for damages against a -railroad company tlie petition alleged that the plaintiff had been damaged by the defendant in the sum of $1,000, on account of facts “hereinafter stated.” It then proceeded to set forth damages resulting, first, from a -wrongful diversion of water, thereby causing it to flow upon plaintiff’s land; and second from fire alleged to have been set out and communicated to plaintiff’s land by means of sparks emitted from an engine on defendant’s railroad. Relatively to the first claim for damages, the petition as amended described the land and the manner in which…