Le Mieux v. Sherriff-Goslin Co.

Defendant, a corporation, contracted to put a new roof on plaintiff’s barn, and while it, by its employees, was doing the work, the barn and some adjacent buildings and some chattels were destroyed by fire. Averring that the fire had been caused by the negligence of defendant, in that its employees

“lit matches and smoked cigarettes and pipes and carelessly, negligently, and wrongfully, cast lighted matches, the burning fag ends of cigarettes, and the burning butts of cigars in and upon said roof of said bam, and in, upon-, and about said highly combustible and inflammable materials, hay, and…