Reed v. Dick

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Milton, J. :

The plaintiff, J. W. Reed, alleged in his petition substantially the following facts :

That on Sunday, October 22, 1893, the defendants, *761Jacob Dressen and John Dick, residents of Ellin wood, in Barton county, were hunting for game, and while hunting they trespassed upon the premises of one O. Seward, in Stafford county, and set fire to hay belonging to Seward; that the fire spread and soon reached plaintiff’s premises, and there burned a large acreage of pasture land and also eighty-five tons of hay in the stack, all belonging to the…