Michigan Millers Mutual Fire Insurance v. Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered against appellant, Great Northern Railway Company, for damages resulting from a fire.

In the city of Garfield, the tracks of the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company and its operating lessee, Union Pacific Railroad Company, run in a general easterly and westerly direction. Adjacent to the tracks, to the north, and on the railroad right of way, is situated the warehouse of the White Mill, Inc. The Great Northern tracks run parallel to and south of the Union Pacific tracks, a distance of a little over one hundred feet. Between the tracks…