Judd v. New York & T. S. S. Co.

GRAY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in this case brought suit against the defendant for the recovery of damages, resulting to them from the loss by fire of a large amount of wool, stored in the sheds of the defendant while awaiting transportation. The plaintiffs alleged and adduced evidence tending to show negligence on the part of the defendant, in storing this wool in a shed adjoining another shed, not in its ownership or control, containing a large amount of jute, alleged to be exceedingly inflammable, and which, as the shed was an open one, was exposed to the sparks of passing locomotives.…