Dwight v. . E., C. N.R.R. Co.

The judgment awards to the plaintiff five hundred and three dollars for damages occasioned by the defendant's negligence, in setting on fire and destroying twenty-one apple trees, two cherry trees, and two and one-half tons of standing grass, and also injuring seven apple trees, the property of plaintiff.

The only question presented on this appeal, is whether the proper measure of damages was adopted on the trial.

A witness called by the plaintiff was asked: Q. What were those twenty-one trees worth at the time they were killed? Objection was made that the evidence did not tend to prove the…