Necedah Manufacturing Corp. v. Juneau County

The following opinion was filed June 12, 1931:

Fritz, J.

The damages which plaintiffs seek to recover in their respective actions resulted from a single fire, which plaintiffs claimed was caused on June 5, 1925, by the negligent operation of a hoisting engine by defendant’s employees. Defendant used the engine in operating a gravel pit on its premises, adjoining plaintiffs’ properties. By stipulation the actions were tried together, and the jury in a special verdict found (1) that the fire was caused by sparks or cinders emitted from defendant’s engine; (2) that defendant failed to have its…