McCullen v. Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of South Dakota.
1Opinion of the Court
THAYER, Circuit Judge.
This action was brought by Maggie McCullen, the plaintiff in error, against the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, the defendant in error, to recover the value of a steam flouring mill located in the town of St. Lawrence, county of Hand, state of South Dakota, which was destroyed, as she claimed, on December 2, 1895, by being set on fire by sparks that were negligently suffered to escape from one of the defendant company’s locomotives, which was at the time in charge of its employes and was hauling- one of its freight trains. The action was brought originally in a…
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