St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. Hoover
Court of Appeals of Kansas
Memorandum.- — Error from Butler district court; C. A. Leland, judge. Action by Anna Hoover and others against The St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company to recover damages for fire. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings the case to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnson, P. J.:
C. E. Hoover was the owner of a quarter-section of land in Little Walnut township, Butler county, Kansas. He and his family were occupying this land as their homestead. In 1889 he died, leaving surviving him Anna Hoover, his widow, and five minor children. The family continued to reside on the quarter-section of land as their homestead. There was situated upon this quarter-section of land an orchard of about two acres, consisting of.apple-trees, peach-trees, cherry-trees, plum-trees, grapevines, blackberry, and, gooseberry bushes; there…
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