Wilson v. Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Co.

HUNTER, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought in the District Court of Randall County to recover damages from the appellee, a domestic railroad corporation, for negligently setting fire to the grass in Randall County, which spread to and burned the grass, fence posts, and watering troughs, and injured the sod and turf on appellant’s lands lying in Armstrong County, some twenty-five miles from appellee’s railroad track where the fire started. It was alleged that appellee’s railroad extended through Randall County, and that it had a local agent there. The amount of damages claimed was…