Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad v. Dennis
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Sumner District Court. The opinion states the facts. Judgment for plaintiff Dennis, at the September Term, 1886. The defendant Company brings the case here.
1Opinion of the Court
*425The opinion of the court was delivered' by
Horton, C. J.:
J. M. Dennis brought his action against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad' Company, before a justice of the peace of Sumner county, claiming forty-five dollars for damages sustained by him for hay burned by a fire put out by the section hands while -working for the railroad company, about the 8th of November, 1884, on the southwest quarter of section eight, township twenty-four south, of range two west, in Sumner county. Subsequently, the case was taken by appeal to the district court.
Upon the trial, the jury returned a verdict…
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