Niederhaus v. Jackson
Indiana Court of Appeals
From Vanderburgh Probate Court; Elmer Q. Lockyear, Judge. Action by Fred Niederhaus against William J. Jackson, receiver of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company. From a judgment for defendant, the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtNichols, C. J.
Action by appellant to recover damages of appellee for the destruction by fire of certain buildings with their contents belonging to appellant, and located along and near appellee’s railroad right-of-way.
*552The complaint is in two paragraphs. The first charges negligence of appellee in communicating the fire, the second that the fire was communicated by appellee’s locomotive used in the operation of appellee’s railroad, and undertakes to state a liability under Acts 1911 p. 186, §§5525a, 5525b Burns 1914, the second paragraph being without reference to negligence.
Appellee filed three paragraphs…
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