Milwaukee & Saint Paul Railway Co. v. Kellogg

This was an action to recover compensation for the destruction by fire of the plaintiff’s saw-mill and a quantity of lumber, situated and lying in the State of Iowa, and on the banks of tbe river Mississippi. That the property was destroyed by fire was uncontroverted. From tbe bill of exceptions, it appears that tbe “plaintiff alleged tbe fire was negligently communicated from tbe defendants’ steamboat ‘ Jennie Brown ’ to an elevator built of pine lumber, and one hundred and twenty feet high, owned by tbe defendants, and standing on tbe bank of tbe river, and from the elevator to tbe…