Butts v. Anthis

Mrs. Ilah Anthis owned a farm close to U. S. Highway 77 in Logan county. On July 15, 1934, a very hot day, a truck of the carnival 'attraction owned by Nipp Butts was driven with a flat tire over the concrete pavement on said highway for such a distance and at such a speed that the friction resulting therefrom ignited the tire, which flew off the wheel and set fire to the grass alongside the road. The fire spread into and upon Mrs. Anthis’ farm, doing serious "damage to her fence, crops and meadow. She recovered damages, in the court below, and Butts, on appeal from the verdict, urges chiefly…