Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad v. Osborn

M. H. Osborn brought this action against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company to recover damages for the destruction of several stacks of wheat by a fire alleged to have been negligently started by one of the Company’s locomotives. The wheat was stacked on Osborn’s premises, which adjoined the right of way and depot grounds of the Railroad Company, at Danville ; and it appears *769tliat the fire started immediately after a passenger train of the Company had passed over the road and departed from that station. The acts of negligence charged were : First, careless management of the…