Gilland v. Union Pacific Railway Co.
Wyoming Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court for the County of Laramie, Hon. Richard H. Scott, judge. Action by George H. Gilland to recover damages from the Union Pacific Railway Company, for the negligent destruction of grass by fire. The material facts are stated in the opinion. There was no joint ownership with the plaintiff in the grass destroyed or any portion thereof. That much is established by the evidence.
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ERROR to the District Court for the County of Laramie, Hon. Richard H. Scott, judge. Action by George H. Gilland to recover damages from the Union Pacific Railway Company, for the negligent destruction of grass by fire. The material facts are stated in the opinion. There was no joint ownership with the plaintiff in the grass destroyed or any portion thereof. That much is established by the evidence. A joint tenancy has a fourfold unity, namely, a unity of title, of interest, of time, and of possession, the interest being acquired by all, and by the same act or conveyance, commencing at the…
1Opinion of the Court
PottbR, Justice.
George H. Gilland brought this action against the Union Pacific Railway Company to recover damages for negligently permitting "fires upon its right of way to spread into and upon certain lands alleged to be in the possession of the plaintiff, which fires consumed and destroyed plaintiff’s, grass growing on said lands; said injury is alleged to have occurred about the 20th day of October, 1891.' The damages were placed in the petition at the sum of five hundred dollars.
The answer of the defendant admitted that it was a corporation, and denied generally each other allegation of…
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- Brown v. WellingtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
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