McDowell v. Norfolk Southern Railroad

Civil action. The action is to recover damages for destruction of plaintiff's house, and personal property therein, by fire, on 6 December, 1920, through the negligence of defendant in operating its train, and chiefly by reason of a defective spark-arrester on the defendant's engine, the house being situate just adjacent to defendant's right of way, in or near the town of Asheboro, N.C. Defendant denied that the house was set on fire by its train, or otherwise, and denied that the engine was in any way defective; and both sides offered large numbers of witnesses in support of their respective…