Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Co. v. Carpenter

DAVIS, Justice.

Plaintiff-appellee, S. D. Carpenter, Jr., and wife, Nancy T. Carpenter, sued defendant-appellant, Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company, for damages for the diminution of the value of certain property they owned adjacent to the railway right of way as the result of a fire alleged to have been started by a train of the appellant. Appellee alleged that they owned a tract of land in Camp County, Texas, upon which they maintained a tree farm and a pasture of crimson clover and Bermuda grass for the production of hay. They specifically allege that the appellant had caused the fire by…