Mobile & Ohio Railroad v. Keith

Tbe defendant, tbe Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, has appealed from a judgment rendered against it in tbe circuit court of Madison county in the sum of $1,000 as damages for the alleged burning of a tenant house, consisting of four rooms, porches, etc.; certain shade trees and fruit trees, fence rails and a smokehouse belonging to plaintiff and located on his farm near defendant’s right-of-way a few miles south of Jackson.

Hereafter, the parties will be designated as they were in the court below- — J. D. Keith, plaintiff, and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, defendant.

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