Illinois Central Railroad v. Scheible

OpinioN of tub Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

This is a suit to recover damages for the value of a house alleged to have been destroyed by fire started by sparks from one of the railroad company’s engines. There is nothing about the case to take it out of the usual class of cases of this character. The law controlling the rights and liabilities of the-parties is so well settled that there was hardly any room for error to be committed, and so far as the law of the case is concerned no error prejudicial to the substantial rights of the railroad company appears in the record.

The court told the…