Southern Railway Co. v. Richardson

Evidence to the effect that on a windy March morning just before daylight a train of the defendant company, while being operated on its tracks about one hundred yards west of a barn owned by the plaintiff in one of these cases, and in which the plaintiff in the other of these cases had certain hay stored, was emitting a continuous stream of sparks in large volume, to a height of five or six feet above the top of the smokestack of the locomotive pulling the train, and which were being carried by a high west wind towards the barn where the hay was stored, that the locomotive, from the noise it…