Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co. v. Ross

Comstock, A.

The appellees, partners in business at Rosedale, Parke county, Indiana, were plaintiffs below. The complaint is in two paragraphs. The first alleges that appellant, on the 29th of September, 1897, carelessly and negligently caused fire to be set out upon its right of way, and that it escaped therefrom into a piece of ground grown up with weeds and grass, lying immediately west of its right of way and east of what is known as the right of way of the Vandalia Railroad Company; that the fire caught in an old depot on the Vandalia right of way, and in two cars of shelled corn, owned…