Lehigh Valley R. v. Russia

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

As a result of the fire referred to in action No. 1 between those parties, a decision in which is rendered to-day (21 F.[2d] 398), a warehouse in which aluminum, property of the defendant in error was stored, was destroyed. The jury, in answer to a special question, found the fire to have been caused by the sole proximate negligence of the plaintiff in error. On this writ the plaintiff in error has assigned 362 errors. We will not consider them all, but only briefly such as require discussion.

The questions of the jurisdiction of the court and the right of the defendant…