Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Consolidated R. R. Co. v. Spencer

This was an action on the case, brought by Nathaniel W. Spencer against the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Consolidated Eailroad Company, to recover damages to the plaintiff’s property by fire, set from sparks or coals escaping from one of the defendant’s locomotive engines. The declaration contains four counts. The first count alleges that, on December 1, 1891, the plaintiff was the owner and in possession of a certain tract of land in Marion county, (describing it,) containing ten acres, upon which were standing and growing nine hundred bearing apple-trees, five bearing cherry-trees,…