Alcorn v. St. Louis & Hannibal Railroad

This is an action for damages for property loss by fire, alleged to have been caused by sparks from an engine of the defendant railroad company. Plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment for $167.50, and the defendant has appealed.

The pleadings are not in controversy. It is enough to say that the petition alleges that defendant’s railroad runs within a quarter of a mile of plaintiff’s land, there being a meadow belonging to other persons between plaintiff’s land and defendant’s right of way; that the defendant ran a locomotive which was improperly constructed over its tracks so that sparks…