Cleveland, C., C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Stephens

Mr. Presiding Justice Creighton

delivered the opinion op the Court.

This was an action on the case by appellee against appellant, in the Circuit Court of Crawford County, to recover damages for injury to appellee’s property by fire.

The declaration consists of a number of counts alleging that appellee was owner of lands therein described, upon which were growing 400 bearing apple trees, seventeen acres of clover, twenty acres of timothy, and upon which were 400 rails in fence and seventy-five loads of manure spread on the ground; and that appellant was operating its railroad through said lands,…