Clifford v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Oneida ■county: Ohas. Y. BaedeeN, Circuit Judge. In the summer of 1894, the plaintiffs’ timber lands, situated in township 36, range 3 E., township 36, range 4 E., and rtownship 31, range 4 E., in the counties of Oneida and Price, lying from one to seven miles north of the defendant’s railroad track, were damaged by fires, and this action to recover for such damage was brought.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Oneida ■county: Ohas. Y. BaedeeN, Circuit Judge. In the summer of 1894, the plaintiffs’ timber lands, situated in township 36, range 3 E., township 36, range 4 E., and rtownship 31, range 4 E., in the counties of Oneida and Price, lying from one to seven miles north of the defendant’s railroad track, were damaged by fires, and this action to recover for such damage was brought. The complaint alleged negligent setting of fires by the defendant at various undefined •points along its road between about three miles east of Pren-fice and one mile…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 15, 1899:
Dodge, J.
1. The first and second assignments of error are alleged upon the refusal of the court to require plaintiffs to make complaint more definite and certain as to the place or places where originated the fires which were claimed to *621have injured plaintiffs’ lands, the specific acts of negligence charged to defendant, and the course pursued bj a certain fire started July T. While it may well be that the complaint should have been more definite as to some of these matters, and plaintiffs could have made it so if they had knowledge enough to…
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