Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. McCartney
Indiana Supreme Court
From the Jefferson Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, C. J.
— McCartney sued the railroad company to recover.damages alleged to have been sustained by him on account of the destruction of certain property by fire, which the company negligently permitted to escape from its locomotive engines. It is averred in the complaint “ that on the 7th day of November, 1885, while the defendant was running a locomotive over its tracks, sparks and fire escaped from the locomotive and negligently set fire to grass upon the plaintiff’s land, and burned and destroyed,” etc.; * * *' “that said fire, injury and damage were not in any manner caused by the act, fault or…
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