Lucas v. Wattles

This action is brought for the negligent “destruction of the plaintiff’s buildings by fires lighted by defendant, or not properly cared for by him.

The declaration contains four counts. The first alleges 'that defendant, on the third day of September, 1881, at North Branch, in the county of Lapeer, lighted a fire on his, •the defendant’s land, and so negligently kept said fire that ■it extended from the defendant’s land to the adjoining buildings of the plaintiff, to-wit, one dwelling-house, one frame barn and one log barn, and wholly destroyed them with their contents, and also destroyed a…