Moose v. Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas

Plaintiff in error, J. W. Moose, sued defendant in error to recover damages in the sum of $1,000 for the loss of a certain house destroyed by fire, which he alleges was caused by sparks from one of defendant’s locomotives on the 2d day of June, 1913, which were negligently permitted to escape and fall upon plaintiff’s said house and thereby bum and destroy the same. The defendant company answered by general demurrer, general denial, and denying that any engine or locomotive operated by it was defective in its machinery, appliances, or equipment, or that it was negligently operated so as to…