Bullock v. Porter
Superior Court of Delaware
Action on the Case based upon the alleged negligence of the defendant in setting fire to grass and brush on his land, to recover damages for injuries to timber growing on adjacent land of the plaintiff. The facts appear in the charge of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtWoolley, J.
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury: — This is an action on the case, where*181in the plaintiff relying upon his remedy at common law and not upon the statute, seeks to recover from the defendant, damages for injuries to his property, caused as it is alleged, by the defendant’s acts of negligence. The plaintiff claims that the defendant, on the twenty-third day of March, A. D. 1910, with the aid of others acting under his direction, set fire to the grass, brush or growth upon the part of his land that was east of and adjacent to the land of the plaintiff; that at the time the fire was…
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