Texas Midland R. R. v. Ray.

Appellee sued appellant in the court below "for $674.75, the value of certain farm produce and harness stored in a barn adjacent to appellant’s railroad, and alleged to have been destroyed by fire set out by sparks from one. of appellant’s engines while passing the barn. The petition alleged that at or about 10 o’clock of the morning of the fire locomotives of appellant were operating trains at the point where the barn was situated from, which sparks of fire escaped, and, while it was not known which locomotive emitted the sparks or cinders which set the fire, that any of them could have done…