Redmond v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

Plaintiff sued before a justice of the peace, alleging in his statement, that while defendant, on the 11th of March, 1879, was running its cars upon its railroad, the locomotive engine and cars were so carelessly and negligently managed that fire escaped therefrom, and was communicated to inflammable material which the defendant negligently and carelessly permitted to accumulate on its right of way, and that from the right of way the fire was communicated to plaintiff’s blue-grass, fencing and timber, to his damage $50. The plaintiff had a judgment, from which the defendant appealed to the…