Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Goode

RAINEY, Associate Justice.

Conclusions of Fact.—In the year 1891, on four different occasions, appellant’s servants, while operating trains, negligently permitted sparks to escape from the locomotives of appellant’s trains, setting fire to and burning the grass on and injuring the turf or sod of appellee’s pasture, land, amounting in the aggregate to about 320 acres, by which appellee was damaged in the sum of $1050.

Conclusions of Law.—The appellant complains of the action of the court in permitting appellee to prove, over objections, the value of the grass burned, and the difference in the…