Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon Railroad v. Spear

Defendants in error sued the railroad company in case for negligently setting fire to a quantity of hay and a warehouse, whereby they were destroyed. The facts as they were developed on the trial were that plaintiffs owned *171the warehouse and a quantity of hay stored near it on premises of their own, and that upon these premises they had caused to be laid a track upon which railroad engines and cars might be and had been running for their accommodation for a long time before the fire. When plaintiffs had occasion for cars, they had an arrangement with the railroad company to draw them in and…