Steger v. Barrett

LEVY, Associate Justice.

— On October 14, 1908, certain buildings and personal property therein, owned by appellee and located on certain premises leased by him for a term of years from the true owner, were destroyed by fire. He sued appellants for their value, claiming that they negligently and wrongfully entered as trespassers on his premises, and, over his continued objection and without his consent at and before the injury, located and operated thereon a traction steam engine, which was not equipped with any spark arrester or other reasonably sufficient means to prevent the escape of fire…