Mink v. Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon Railway Co.

Plaintiff is the owner ox 80 acres of land through which defendant’s railway runs. This suit is brought to recover damages for injury done to the plaintiff’s land and other property by reason of a fire. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff the ca,se is brought here by writ of error.

Plaintiff claims that section men employed by defendant were burning brush and other rubbish upon defendant’s right of way; that near the place where the men were burning the brush the land adjoining was covered with a tall, dry marsh grass which was very inflammable and was within a very few feet of where…