Southern Railway Co. v. Myers
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certiorari. Before Judge Hutchins. Banks superior court. ¡September term, 1898.
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
Myers sued the Southern Railway Company in the justice’s court, for damages claimed to have been sustained on *166account of the destruction of certain personalty by a fire originating from sparks thrown from an engine of the defendant company. Upon the trial it was shown from the evidence that-plaintiff had certain fodder, corn-tops, etc., stored in a blacksmith-shop sixty-two feet from the railroad of the defendant that about five o’clock in the morning defendant’s train passed along the railroad by the shop, which was soon after seen to-be on fire; that grass was burned out from towards the…
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