Erickson v. Pennsylvania R.

GRAY, Circuit Judge.

This case comes up on writ of error from the Circuit Court for the District of New jersey, where the plaintiff was nonsuited in his action against the defendant corporation, for damages caused by fire from defendant's locomotive communicating with the plaintiff's buildings.

Plaintiff’s buildings were immediately on the side of the railroad right of way, and about six inches therefrom. In this building, plaintiff conducted the business of hay pressing, and storing baled hay. On its right of way, next to plaintiff’s property, the railroad company had built a platform for…