Morris v. Mattingly

This is a suit brought under section 5433, Revised Statutes', 1909, providing for double damages if a person shall willfully set fire to any woods, marshes or prairies so as to occasion damages to another person. There were two cases filed in the circuit court, one by plaintiff' S. O. Morris, and the other by his wife, Emma Morris, both against the defendant, in which petitions it is alleged that the defendant willfully set fire to brush, weeds and gjrass on his land which adjoined the land of-Emma Morris; that it was done at a time when there was much combustible vegetation between the…