Hackett v. Harmon
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action commenced before justice of the peace. Appeal from the County Court of Douglas county; the Hon. Waiter J. Dodson, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1909.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Baume
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a suit originally instituted before a justice of the peace to recover damages alleged to have been occasioned by a fire communicated from a locomotive or locomotives operated by the defendant, whereby about one-half mile of hedge fence on the west line of plaintiff’s farm was destroyed, and a small portion of plaintiff’s pasture land and corn field was burned over. On defendant’s appeal to the county court of Douglas county, upon a trial by jury, there was a verdict and judgment against the defendant for $125.
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