Paiva v. California Door Co.

Plaintiff sued to recover damages alleged to have been caused by fire “negligently kindled” by defendant on its land and by it “negligently, wilfully and carelessly” permitted to spread to and upon plaintiff’s land and “burn and destroy a large amount of plaintiff’s standing timber, pasturage, fence posts and wire.” At the close of plaintiff’s evidence, on motion of defendant, judgment of nonsuit was entered on the ground that the plaintiff had failed to prove a sufficient ease to support a judgment in his favor. This appeal is from the judgment. Since, on a motion for a nonsuit, all the…