Tucker v. Cummings

Mrs. M. L. Tucker sued J. E. Cummings to recover damages for the alleged negligence of the defendant in building a fire in his back yard to burn trash and in allowing it to spread to an open field adjoining the yard and to seriously burn plaintiff’s four-gallon Jersey cow, which plaintiff’s husband had staked in the field to graze. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendant, and the question for determination by this court is whether the court erred in - overruling the plaintiff’s motion for new trial containing only four special grounds, three of them complaining of…