Railroad Co. v. Short

This action was brought in the court below to recover the value of a bale of cotton belonging to the defendant in error, alleged to have been ignited and destroyed by sparks from one of the plaintiff in error’s engines while the cotton was stored on an open platform near the track.

*715Numerous errors have been assigned by tbe plaintiff 'in error, all of which have been considered and disposed ■of, but only two of them will be noticed in this opinion.

The first of these arises upon the action of his honor, the circuit judge, in his rulings upon certain testimony offered by the defendant in error…