Owen Development Company v. Calvert

This suit was filed by respondents against petitioner to recover damages for the depreciation in cash market value of certain personal property, as well as damages for the loss of use of a part of that property. The pleadings alleged that the petitioner, through its servants and agents, negligently (1) set fire to some grass near the building in which said personal property was situated at a time when neither of the respondents or any of their employees were present, (2) negligently failed to completely extinguish the grass fire before leaving it, and (3) negligently failed to properly watch…