Simmons v. . Lumber Co.

This action was brought to recover damages for burning plaintiffs' woods, which they contend was caused by the defendant's negligence. The court, in the charge, states concisely the principal facts upon which the plaintiffs claim the right to recover. It is alleged by plaintiffs "that about 1 May, 1914, while the defendant Roper Lumber Company was in possession of certain land, and cutting the timber, building tramroads for the purpose of getting the timber out, hauling logs to load, that they negligently and carelessly permitted fire to escape from their engines, and thereby destroy a large…