Peck v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.

This action was brought to recover the value of a warehouse and its contents, which on May 2, 1895, were destroyed by fire caused by sparks emitted by a locomotive of the defendant. The plaintiff's building stood about twenty feet from the defendant's track. Within a very few minutes after the passage of the train a fire was observed on the roof of the warehouse, and at the same time another fire was discovered burning on the bank adjacent to the track of the defendant, further south. There had been no fire in or about the warehouse on that day and when the fire was first observed it had not…