Wisconsin & Arkansas Lumber Co. v. Scott

This action was instituted by Eva Jernigan, Sarah McKee Vance and J. T. Scott against the Wisconsin & Arkansas Lumber Company and Arkansas Land & Lumber Company. The plaintiffs, Jernigan and. Vance, alleged that they were the owners of certain lands over which the defendants had constructed their railroad; that, on the first of August, 1922, defendants negligently set out fire and burned plaintiffs’ fence, to their damage in the sum of $75; that J. T. Scott had rented the lands for the year 1922, and, by reason of the burning of the fence, they had been unable to collect their rent from Scott…