Russell v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.

Appellee recovered a judgment against the appellants in the Circuit Court of Saline county for nine hundred dollars, to reverse which judgment this appeal is prosecuted. Carrier Mills is a town of about two thousand inhabitants, situated on the C. C. C. & St. L. Railroad in Saline county. On the morning of March 9, 1909, at about four o’clock, the station house of said railroad at said town was burned, and when the building burned the telegraph wires dropped down on the ground or platform and remained there until about seven o’clock A. M., at which time the section foreman and others tied up…