St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. Mathews
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OF MISSOURI. This was an acti'on brought in an inferior court of the State of Missouri, by an owner of land in St. Louis county, against a railroad corporation organized under the laws of the State, and owning and operating with locomotive engines a line of railway adjoining the plaintiff’s land, to recover damages for the destruction of the plaintiff’s dwelling-house, barn, out buildings, shrubbery and personal property upon that…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OF MISSOURI. This was an acti'on brought in an inferior court of the State of Missouri, by an owner of land in St. Louis county, against a railroad corporation organized under the laws of the State, and owning and operating with locomotive engines a line of railway adjoining the plaintiff’s land, to recover damages for the destruction of the plaintiff’s dwelling-house, barn, out buildings, shrubbery and personal property upon that land, by fire communicated from one of those engines on August 9, .1887. ' The petition contained two counts, the first of…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice GRAY,
after stating the case; delivered the opinion of the court.
The only question presented by the record, of which this court has jurisdiction, is whether therels anything inconsistent with the Constitution of -the United States in the statute of Missouri of March 31, 1887, by which- every railroad corporation owning or operating a railroad in the State is made responsible in damages for property of any person injured or destroyed by fire communicated by its locomotive engines;' and is declared to have an insurable interest in property along its route, and authorized to insure…
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