Quay v. Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway Co.

Plaintiffs instituted this suit to recover damages for the destruction by fire of about 300,000 feet of cedar logs alleged to have been caused by sparks from one of defendant’s locomotives. The logs were piled along defendant’s right of way for shipment over its road to St. Ignace, whence plaintiffs intended to have them towed to Cheboygan for manufacture into shingles at their shingle mill at that place, as defendant understood. The declaration alleged, and the evidence tended to prove, that, in consequence of the burning of said logs, “ plaintiffs ran out of stock for their said shingle…