Jones v. Sommers

— This action comes to us on appeal from the Hendricks Circuit Court. The action was brought by the appellees John and Beulah Sommers and John and Mollie Dove against the appellant Bennie Jones and the appellee Raymond Carmichael.

The issues were formed by the plaintiff’s second amended complaint in two paragraphs. The first paragraph being on the theory of bailment and second paragraph sounding in tort and alleging in substance that the property of the plaintiffs below was destroyed by fire caused by the negligence of the defendants below.

To both paragraphs of the plaintiff’s complain the…