Burroughs v. Commonwealth

This is a petition against the Commonwealth, brought under R. L. c. 201. It alleges in substance that the petitioner sustained damages to his property by fire set and negligently permitted to escape from their control by men employed by the State forester and engaged under his direction in cutting cord wood and clearing brush under the assumed authority of Res. 1915, cc. 2, 23, for the private benefit of one Streeter, the owner of land adjacent to the petitioner’s land, who was to pay for the work done at so much per cord of wood cut. In substance the petition sets out an ordinary cause of…