Greer v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

—This suit was originally commenced in the circuit court of Butler County on August 16, 1911, by Berryl McGowan, a child about-two years old, by his father as next friend, .to recover for physical pain and mental anguish suffered by said Berryl resulting from burns received on account of the alleged negligence of defendant in failing to keep its right of way free from dead grass and weeds and other rubbish, so as to prevent the spread of fire communicated thereto by passing locomotives. The evidence showed that; the front yard of this child’s home adjoined the- defendant’s right of way, and…