McLeod v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. ChiEE Justice .Bonham.

This action is brought to recover for damages alleged to have been done to plaintiff’s land by fire communicated by a locomotive engine of the defendant to the right-of-way of the defendant and which spread from the right-of-way to the lands of Roney Poole, which lay between defendant’s right-of-way and plaintiff’s lands, and thence spread to the lands of plaintiff.

The case came on for trial before Judge Mann and a jury in the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County. At the conclusion of the testimony for the plaintiff, the…