Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railroad v. Unaka Springs Lumber Co.
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM WASHINGTON. Appeal from the Law Court at Johnson City, Washington County to the Court of Civil Appeals and by certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paw
This suit was brought by the Unaka Springs Lumber Company, a corporation, in the law court at Johnson City, to recover damages for the alleged negligent burning, by the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway Company, of a sawmill, some stacks of lumber, and other articles of personal property, situated at a place known as Hager’s Siding, in Unicoi county.
The railway company interposed two pleas to the declaration, viz.: (1) Not guilty; and (2) a special plea averring that, in consideration of the construction by the railway company of a side track, or spur track, from the main line .of the…
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- Checkley v. Illinois Central RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1913
- Griswold v. Illinois Central Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1894
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