Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co. v. Snow

Opinion of the Court by

Sims, Commissioner

Reversing.

These actions grow out of damages resulting from a fire which occurred on November 4, 1938, some two miles south of Junction City, near a point where Boyle and Lincoln Counties join. The petitions in each of the eases allege that the defendant railroad company negligently failed to equip its engines with spark arresters! and that the engines emitted fire on the right-of-way which spread to the adjoining farms; that defendant; negligently failed to remove dead grass, weeds, etc., from its right-of-way, which took fire from passing trains. A…