Larsen v. Standard Railway & Timber Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Snohomish county, Bell, J., entered December 16, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for damages to property destroyed by fire.
1Opinion of the CourtBausman, J.
Action for damages, tried before a jury on a complaint alleging that a fire, negligently started in defendants’ timber by one of their own locomotives, had caused another fire in that of plaintiffs. Defendants unsuccessfully challenged the sufficiency of the evidence, and now complain of the court’s ruling upon that, as well as of certain instructions to the jury, which gave plaintiffs a verdict.
*448The challenge to the evidence should have been sustained. The fire on defendants’ land occurred two years before this suit was brought, and not one person swears as to when the fire occurred on…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- North Bend Lumber Co. v. Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1913
- Northwestern Mutual Fire Ass'n v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1912
- Asplund v. Great Northern Railway Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1911
3Cited by1 opinion
- McCann v. Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1916