Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Stephens

This case was begun in the circuit court of Crawford county by appellee, against appellant, to recover damages alleged to have been done to his orchard, fences, grass, etc., by fire set out by the locomotive engine of defendant. The declaration is in case, containing several counts, alleging, in substance, that the plaintiff was the owner of land abutting upon the right of way of defendant; that through the carelessness and negligence of defendant its engines threw out sparks and set fire to combustible matter on the plaintiff’s land, which burned and destroyed certain property owned by and…