Neal v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

This is an action to recover $3,000 for damages resulting from fire in a one-story frame shingle-roof warehouse at Forty-first and Nicholas streets in Omaha. The building and contents were owned by Tavner R. Neal, one of the plaintiffs. The other plaintiffs had insured the property against fire, and they have paid insured the amount due under his policies. The warehouse was located about 50 feet from defendant’s railroad track, and plaintiffs plead that the fire was negligently started by a passing locomotive. Defendant denies negligence and the starting of the fire. The trial resulted in a…