Haley v. St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway Co.

It appears from tbe testimony introduced by the plaintiff, that between eleven and twelve o’clock of each day a freight train passed his farm, going west, and that, on the 28th day of October, 1875, just after the train passed, at the time named, a smoke was observed in an adjoining-field, about 90 feet distant from the railroad track, which immediately kindled into a flame which spread to the plaintiff’s farm, three-quarters of a mile away, consuming his fences, out-buildings and farm products. The present action was brought to recover the value of the property thus destroyed.

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