Knowlton v. New York & New England Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, on the Pub. Sts. c. 112, § 214, for damage to the woodland of the plaintiff’s intestate by fire communicated by a locomotive engine of the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, before Aldrich, J., who, after a verdict for the defendant, allowed a bill of exceptions, the material part of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
At first sight of the bill of exceptions, the facts in this case appear to be rather involved, but those which *607we have found to be material to the decision are simple. The original plaintiff, William Knowiton, was the owner of two lots of woodland, lying separate from each other, one of which was called the Taft and Chase lot, and the other the Southwick lot. On the 6th of May, 1881, a fire communicated from a locomotive engine of the defendant caught upon the Taft and Chase lot adjoining the railroad, and spread over the intervening space about half a mile to the Southwick lot, doing damage…
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