Missoula Trust & Savings Bank v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

Plaintiffs brought this action to recover from the defendants the value of certain buildings and personal property contained in and about them, including a straw stack, located on what is known as the Bandmann ranch, which it is alleged were burned on July 13, 1924, by fire communicated to them from an engine which was hauling a west-bound freight train of the defendant company in charge of the defendant Deering as engineer.

The complaint charges that the defendants were negligent in three particulars, vie.: (1) Careless and negligent management of the defendant company’s train; (2) failure to…