Hiles v. Case

Dyer, D. J.

The petitioners above named have presented petitions for the allowance of claims to a large amount against the receiver of the Green Bay & Minnesota Railroad, who is operating the road under the direction of this court, pending the foreclosure of certain mortgages upon the property, which demands are for loss and damages claimed to have been sustained by the petitioners in the destination of timber and cranberry marsh, along the line of the road, by fire alleged to havo been set by sparks escaping from defective locomotives. By suitable and separate allegations it is charged that…