Garnier v. Porter
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, and from an order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Temple, C.
— Appeal from judgment and order refusing plaintiffs a new trial.
This action is for damages for the destruction of the hay, grasses, and pasture on 2,880 acres of land. It is charged that defendant “ willfully and negligently kindled a fire on his land and set fire to grasses growing thereon in the vicinity of the plaintiffs’ land, and so negligently watched and tended the said fire that it spread over the intermediate space, and came to and spread *107over the plaintiffs’ land, and consumed the hay, grass, and pasture,” etc.
Plaintiffs claim that they were damaged in the sum of forty…
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