Southern Railway Co. v. Williams

Zoula Williams instituted an action against the Southern Railway Company, to recover damages which she alleged she sustained by the burning of a hotel building and its contents at Cohutta in Whitfield county. It is alleged that the fire was caused by sparks emitted from an engine in use by the defendant railway company, the railroad track of defendant being within a short distance of the hotel building. W. L. Williams also brought an action against the railroad company, to recover the value of cer*336tain goods which, he alleged belonged to him, and which were in an outhouse on the premises…