St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas v. Gilbert

Appellee owned 31% acres of land contiguous to the right of way of a line of railway owned by appellant the .St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas. By some arrangement between said railway company and the other appellant, the St. Louis, San Francisco & Texas Railway Company, the latter also operated trains over said line of railway. August 7, 1907, as the result of fire set out on said land, or on said right of way and from thence spreading to the land, two stacks of straw and some fence posts situated thereon, and grass growing thereupon, were destroyed, and by the burning of the…