Ide v. Boston & Maine Railroad
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1908, Caledonia County, Hall, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted.
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Case. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1908, Caledonia County, Hall, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. Subject to defendant’s exception, plaintiff was permitted to show by one E. P. Aldrich that a week or two before the fire in question he saw a freight train go by plaintiff’s mill, and that' the locomotive emitted sparks; that from fifteen minutes to one-half hour after the train passed fire was discovered within eight or ten feet of the railroad track, and that his wife extinguished it with a teakettle of water; and that…
1Opinion of the CourtHaselton, J.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a corporation, to recover damages for the destruction by fire of a grist-mill and outbuildings and of grain stored therein. Trial by jury was had. Yerdict and judgment were for the plaintiff. The fire in question, which occurred May 12, 1905, was alleged to have been communicated by a locomotive engine on the Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers Railroad, which, on the date named, was operated by the defendant as lessee. The statute which governs is now P. S. 4510, which reads as follows: “A person or corporation owning or operating a railroad shall be…
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