Freeman v. Vandruff

JEFFREY, C.

This was originally two separate actions commenced in the justice of the peace court in and for the town of Fairfax; one by defendants in error, T. C. Vandruff and Mat Davis, herein called plaintiffs, against Mark Freeman, defendant, for the sum of $75 damages alleged to have been caused by the negligent burning of plaintiff’s stacks of hay; the other by T. C. Van-druff against Mark Freeman for $200 for the loss of about 1,500 acres of standing dry grass, alleged to have been caused by fire negligently set out by defendant and his employee. The two cases were tried separately in…