Southern Railway Co. v. Crowe

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Madeline Crosby Crowe brought suit against Southern Railway Company to recover damages to real property which were caused by a fire. The evidence showed that Southern Railway’s employees were working on the railroad’s tracks in the vicinity of appellee’s property. They were operating a rail-cutting machine which generated sparks. One of the sparks started a fire which the work crew could not extinguish, and the fire quickly grew out of control. It burned 83 acres of Mrs. Crowe’s property, which contained timber of various sizes and ages and 20,000 two-year-old seedlings…