Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. McRee

This was a suit to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the negligence of the defendant railroad company, its agents and servants, in *791setting out fire on its right of way, and in burning the property of-the plaintiff as described in his petition. - The allegations of the petition related to three separate fires, which, it was alleged, had occurred through the negligence of the railroad company on three separate dates, and had destroyed many of the.pine trees on the plaintiff’s land adjacent to and abutting on the right of way of the railroad…