Aman v. . Lumber Co.

This action was brought to recover damages for the burning of plaintiff's timber, alleged to have been caused by defendant's negligence in permitting sparks to escape from its engine. Defendant was engaged in operating a steam logging skidder for the purpose of removing sawlogs from its woods, to be carried over its tramroad to the mill. In order to operate the skidder, defendant had cleared a space adjoining it, and known as a log-deck, by removing the trees and some of the undergrowth and piling them 30 or 40 feet away from the skidder. The fire started in the tree-tops, which had become…