Frederick v. Great Northern Railway Co.

The following opinion was filed January 12, 1932:

Nelson, J.

The defendant contends that the court should have directed a verdict in its favor because the evidence was insufficient reasonably to permit of the inference that the fire which destroyed the plaintiff’s property was communicated directly or indirectly by defendant’s locomotive. Since the enactment of sec. 192.44 of the Statutes, all that is necessary to create liability on the part of a railroad company in cases similar to this, is to prove that property has been injured or destroyed by fire communicated directly or indirectly by a…