Whitney v. Clifford
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Portage County. The plaintiff appealed from a compulsory judgment of non-suit. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtTayloR, J.
This action is brought to recover damages for burning, a large quantity of lumber belonging to the plaintiff. The complaint charges that the fire was corqmunicated to the lumber by sparks and cinders emitted from the smoke.-staclc of a shingle mill belonging to and used by the defendant at the time of the accident. Upon the trial in the court below, the learned circuit judge directed a nonsuit, and judgment was entered against the plaintiff.
The only ground upon which it is contended in this court that the nonsuit was properly ordered, is, that the defendant, at the time of the fire, was not…
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