Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Chappell
Indiana Supreme Court
From Jasper Circuit Court; Charles W. Hanley, Judge. Action by Mary M. Chappell against The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati; Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtCox, C. J.
— Appellee recovered a judgment against appellant for $350 as damage done to a building, owned- by appellee and situated adjacent to appellant’s railroad, by fire communicated to such building by one of appellant’s locomotive engines in use on its railroad. From that judgment this appeal is brought and appellant relies for reversal on assignments of error which involve the sufficiency of appellee’s complaint and the correctness of the action of the trial court in instructing the jury and refusing to instruct it as requested by appellant.
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