Wilcox Oil Co. v. Bradberry

This is an action wherein Alton Bradberry, as plaintiff, sought to recover from Wilcox Oil Company, a corporation, damages for the destruction of a tractor and plow by a fire. The fire had been set out by plaintiff and had gotten out of control. Plaintiff left the field wherein he was plowing, drove his tractor and plow to the pasture where the fire was then burning, and started to plow furrows or a fire guard ahead of the fire in order to stop the fire. While engaged in this plowing to stop or head off the fire, the plow struck the pipe line, stalled the tractor and broke the pipe line from…