DeMund v. Oro Grande Consolidated Mines

This is an action by Oro Grande Consolidated Mines, a corporation, plaintiff, against Charles W. and L. D. DeMund, defendants, to recover damages for the destruction by fire of certain buildings upon property owned by plaintiff. The case was tried to the court sitting without a jury, which rendered judgment in favor of plaintiff for $800, which was afterwards on a remittitur damna reduced to $600, and this appeal was taken.

The facts necessary to a determination of the appeal, with the exception of one matter which we shall discuss at the proper time, are not in dispute and may be stated as…