William N. Trinkle & Real Estate-Land Title & Trust Co. v. Pennsylvania Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Rafferty, J.

This is an appeal from a denial by the trial judge of a motion for direction of verdict made on behalf of defendant-appellant at the close of the trial. The motion, fully argued, was based on the contention that there was nothing in the case that would justify the jury in rendering a verdict for the plaintiff.

The cause of action arose out of the claimed negligence of appellant company in causing a fire to be started in a field adjacent to its right-of-way at or near Tuckahoe, Atlantic county. It appears that suits also were instituted…