Terhune v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Reversing.

Terhune’s house was destroyed by fire about two o’clock on the night of November 7,1915, and this action was instituted by him against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company, to recover $500.00 for the destruction of the building, $640.00 for destruction of the household goods and furniture in the-house, and $900.00 for the destruction of a threshing machine and other farming implements stored in the building, upon the grounds that the fire was started by the railroad companies in one of three ways:…