Jones v. Michigan Central Railroad

This action is brought by the plaintiff to recover the value of a barn and a quantity of hay contained therein, and several hundred rails destroyed by fire.

It is alleged by plaintiff that the barn was burned in consequence of the negligence of the defendant, in allowing the fire, which had caught in the grass from falling sparks thrown from a passing engine, to pass from defendant’s right of way to the premises of the plaintiff, which was a stubble field, in which the barn stood, and only about 120 feet from the track of defendant’s road.

The cause was tried in the Oass circuit before a jury,…