Brown v. Clingman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

McEnery, J.

The plaintiff sued the defendant to recover the sum of nine thousand nine hundred and thirty-one dollars and ninety-six cents for the 'destruction of his hotel and furniture by fire. The petition “ alleges that in the summer of 1889 said A. K. Clingman set fire to and caused fire to be set to a house on the south side of the public square in the town of Homer, which house was burned; that said house was one of several wooden buildings— all in a row, close to each other; that the entire row of buildings was also destroyed by the same fire at…