Cottonwood Fibre Co. v. Thompson

Plaintiffs, Cottonwood Fibre Company and Petroleum Heat and Power Company, tenant in and owner respectively of a factory building, have appealed from an adverse judgment in their action to recover alleged combined actual damages of $102,713.93, and punitive damages of $50,000.' Their petition alleged that on the morning of April 10, 1947 the defendant trustee’s employees negligently operated a' southbound freight train across the Fillmore Street crossing in St. Louis, Missouri, and thereby prevented city fire apparatus from expeditiously and promptly reaching plaintiffs’ factory (then afire)…