Bond v. . R. R.

This is an action by Gladys Bond and husband, N. A. Bond, and N.E. Hicks and husband H. Z. Hicks, against Carolina, Clinchfield, and Ohio Railway, to recover damages of the defendant for the burning over of plaintiff's land, and the destruction of timber alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. The cases were consolidated and tried together at the October Term, 1917, of Rutherford Superior Court, as the same fire burned over the lands of the plaintiffs in each case. The plaintiffs filed similar complaints touching the origin of the fire, and the cause of same, and the…