Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. McCorkle
Indiana Court of Appeals
From the Newton Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J. —
This was an action by appellee, in an amended complaint of two paragraphs, against appellant to recover damages for' negligently permitting fire to escape from a locomotive to land adjacent to its right of way, and thence spread to appellee’s lands.
The special verdict is based upon the first paragraph of the amended complaint. As no objection is made to the amended complaint in this court, it is unnecessary to notice specifically its averments. It is charged, among other things, that the appellant “carelessly and negligently failed to have its said locomotive provided with safe and…
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