Ireland v. Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Railroad

Plaintiffs were the owners of a plow factory situated in Benton Harbor; and on the morning of December 14, 1883, it was wholly consumed by fire. The defendant was operating a railroad, and its track passed within about 50 feet of the factory. The plaintiffs allege that the locomotive engine of defendant was out of repair, and not in good order and condition, and was improperly managed by defendant’s servants, and the sparks arising and coming from the smoke-stack, through the careless, negligent, improper, and unskillful management of the engine by defendant’s servants, were driven, blown,…