Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Motzner

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Clark, J. :

This action was brought by John Motzner against The Union Pacific Railway Company to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by him through the negligent operation of the defendant’s railroad. The particular negligence complained of is that the defendant, while running one of its trains on its road in Russell county, managed its train carelessly and negligently, and failed to employ suitable means to prevent the escape of fire from the engine that was used in running the train, and carelessly and negligently permitted dead and dry…