Lester v. Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad

This was an action for damages occasioned by the destruction of certain property of the plaintiff by fire, which it was alleged the defendant, negligently and carelessly, permitted to escape from its engines, whilst engaged in running and operating its railroad in Holt county.

It appears from the testimony, that about the 9th day of October, 1873, soon after a freight train of the defendant passed the premises of the plaintiff, a fire broke out in the dry grass, on open and uncultivated prairie lands, adjacent to defendant’s track, which fire was communicated, by high winds, to the premises of…