Atkinson v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Brown •county: S. D. Hastings, Jb., Circuit Judge. This was an action to recover damages caused by the alleged negligence of the defendant in permitting sparks of fire, live coals, and cinders to escape from its engines on the 10th and 16th days of September, 1893, whereby fire was' «communicated to the dry and combustible grass, leaves, etc., on its right of way, so that it spread and extended to the plaintiff’s land, adjacent thereto, and upon and over which it continued to burn for several weeks, consuming the soil thereof, and the grass,…