Illinois Central Railroad v. Nunn

The appellee, William Uunn, brought an action on the case, in the Effingham Circuit Court, against the appellants, the Illinois Central Railroad Company, alleging, in his declaration, that he was the owner of a farm through which' the appellants’ railroad ran, and of rails in a fence upon it; that appellants were the owners of a strip of land one hundred feet wide on each side of their track, which it was their duty to keep, where it adjoined appellee’s premises, free from dry grass and other combustible matter, so that fire would not communicate from locomotives running on the road to the…