Aycock v. Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN tried at Spring Term, 1883, of Richmond Superior Court, before MacRae, J. The defendant company appealed from the judgment of the court below.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
This action is to recover compensation in damages for the destruction of timber and other injury done to the plaintiff’s land from fire, alleged to have been communicated by sparks escaping from the smoke-stack of an engine running on the defendant’s road, in the month of March, 1878. Three issues extracted from the pleadings were submitted to and passed on by the jury.
1. Is the plaintiff the owner of the land described in the complaint?
2. Did the defendant negligently set fire to the timber on the plaintiff’s land, and thereby damage the same?
3. If so, what are the plaintiff’s damages?
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