Gorham Mfg. Co. v. N.Y., N.H. H.R.R. Co.

This is an action of debt for damage caused by fire communicated from defendant's engine, brought under section 2 of an act passed at the June session, 1836, of the General Assembly, entitled "An act in amendment of an act entitled `An act to incorporate the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad Company,'" passed at June session, A.D. 1832, which section reads as follows:

"SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, that said corporation shall be liable to pay to the owner or owners for all damages which may arise from the burning of houses, wood, hay, or any other substance whatever, by fire…