Knight v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The appellant brought an action in a Georgia state court against the appellee, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, a Virginia corporation, and B. C. Poppell, a citizen and resident of the state of Georgia, claiming damages in a sum exceeding $3,000, alleged to have been caused by a passing locomotive setting fire to ignitible substances on the right of way of the appellee; the fire so started spreading to land of the appellant contiguous to the right of way. The negligence alleged was the permitting ignitible grass and other substances to remain on the right of way; no…