Deerfoot Farms, Inc. v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad

This is an action of tort to recover damages for the burning of a building and its contents in South-borough on March 28, 1947, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. A judge sitting without jury found for the plaintiff. The defendant’s exceptions to the denial of its requests for rulings raise the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant the finding.

The burned building, which was a warehouse owned and occupied by the plaintiff, was located on the easterly boundary of the defendant’s tracks and right of way which at that place ran approximately north and…