Kellogg v. Payne
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Fremont District Court. This is a suit to recover damages from fire, alleged to have been wrongfully, carelessly and negligently set out by the servants or employees of the defendant. The cause was tried to a jury, and a verdict returned for plaintiff for .three hundred and thirty dollars.
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
l. principa!» AND AGENT: Srvanttrl sponMat supe The plaintiff is the owner of a farm on the Missouri river bottom, in Fremont county, and the defendant is the owner of another farm on the same _ bottom, and not far distant from tlie plaint-0f October, a fire was set out near the farm of defendant, and getting beyond the control of those setting it out, reached the premises of plaintiff and did the damage sued for.
*576There is no question made in this court, by appellant’s counsel, except as to the correctness of two instructions, given by the court to the jury, against his objections.
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