Chase v. Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington Railroad

This is an action on the case to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of a fire negligently communicated to the plaintiff’s land by the defendant’s locomotive engine. It appeared that the fire in question burned over a' large area of the plaintiff’s woodland; that the timber on this land had been cut and removed, and that at the time of the fire it was largely covered with a second growth of beech, 'birch and maple, with some ash, spruce and hemlock, ranging in size from twenty inches down to two inches in diameter; that the ground was exceedingly dry and that in many…