Keystone Manufacturing Co. v. Hines
West Virginia Supreme Court
"Certified from Circuit Court, Randolph County. Action by the Keystone Manufacturing Company against Walker D. Hines, Director General. A demurrer to the declaration was overruled. Defendant pleaded the general issue and filed special pleas over objection to which special replications were rejected. On certified questions based on such pleadings and rulings thereon.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Judge:
Plaintiff has impleaded defendant in an action for damages for negligently setting out the fire which it is alleged originated on his right of way and was negligently allowed to be communicated to inflammable matter on the adjoining property occupied by plaintiff and to.its lumber and other materials stored there, whereby said lumber and other materials were wholly destroyed and lost to plaintiff, to its damage twenty-five thousand dollars.
In the first count the plaintiff alleges that its said lumber and other property, at the time of its destruction, was situate at what was…
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