Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Johnson

This appeal comes from Crawford circuit court. A judgment was there rendered upon a complaint alleging that the defendant negligently set out a fire on the right-of-way and negligently permitted the fire to spread so as to bum around and close to the home of appellee where his wife lay sick and helpless with tuberculosis. At this particular time she was confined to bed in a Burr Cottage, a structure built for tuberculosis patients, the walls being largely of screen wire so that fresh air was always available, and on that account- she, perhaps, suffered more severely as heavy smoke and fumes…