Southern Railway Co. v. Birch

Mrs. Ethel Birch brought an action for damages against the Southern Railway Company in three counts. In'each count she alleged similar acts of negligence. Substantially, those acts were alleged to be that the railroad allowed sparks to escape from its engine, by negligence both in the equipment and in the operations of its engine; that the railroad negligently allowed grasses, weeds, and other inflammable materials to accumulate on its right of way adjacent to the plaintiff’s lands, where the fire, however caused by the railroad, could spread to her lands; and that the railroad, however the…