Guzmán v. American Railroad

Ms. Justice Hutchison

delivered the opinion of the court.

The fifth and eighth paragraphs of the complaint herein read as follows:

“5th. At about 2:15 p. m., of February 4, 1919, a freight and passenger train of the defendant going from Mayagiiez to San Ger-mán, P. R., while crossing the property described locomotive No; 67 was^so negligently operated by the defendant’s employees that then and there ignited matter dropped from the said locomotive and immediately set fire to the cane mentioned in paragraph 11 and caused a conflagration that extended to the cane plantation and completely destroyed…