Stembridge v. Fowler

Mrs. Mamie Y. Fowler sued Marion W. Stem-bridge, alleging that the defendant through his agents and employees damaged petitioner’s timberlands as a consequence of setting fire to defendant’s sawmill site and a spread of the fire to petitioner’s lands. At the conclusion of the evidence for both the plaintiff and the defendant the defendant made a motion for non-suit which was overruled. He then made a motion for a directed verdict which was overruled. The jury found for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted to the overruling of the motions for non-suit and for a directed verdict, and to the…