American Strawboard Co. v. Chicago & Alton Railroad

Appellant brought its action on the case in the circuit court of Will county, against appellee, to recover damages for the destruction by fire of 3476 tons of baled straw and a straw-stacker. The substance of the charge in the different counts of the declaration was, that by the negligence of appellee in the construction and operation of its locomotive engine, sparks and brands of fire were thrown by it to and upon the stacks of straw of the appellant standing near appellee’s switch track, thereby igniting and destroying the same and the said stacker, while appellant was in the exercise of…