Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Jeffers

1. Jeffers sued the railway company, alleging in substance that he owned and possessed a farm adjacent to the railway property, that the farm had thereon a woodland tract, and that the section-foreman of the railway company “carelessly and negligently set fire to the right of way of said company, and carelessly and negligently allowed the same to spread to the farm of petitioner, over which farm the said right of way is located,” and that the fire burned and injured the wood and timber thereon, to his injury and damage. The railway company demurred generally, and demurred specially upon the…