Spear v. Hoffses

These two cases were tried together. The gist of each declaration is that the defendant, in kindling and tending a grass fire on his own land in Cushing, on April 16,1927, when the soil was uncommonly dry and the wind blowing freshly, did so at an unsuitable time and was wanting in care and prudence, to the property damage of the different plaintiffs on two acres and five acres of their several lands, to which the fire spread, destroying the value and beauty of oak groves and doing other damage to their respective properties.

Plea, the general issue.

The jury awarded one plaintiff three hundred…