Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company v. Gage

OPINION

LANGDON, Justice.

This is a suit for damages caused by a grass fire. Upon a jury finding that the de fendant failed to confine the fire to its own right-of-way and permitted weeds and other combustibles to exist on its right-of-way, that each of such acts were negligence and a proximate cause, the court rendered judgment for the plaintiff. The jury found the value of the fence destroyed to be $262.70, the value of the grass destroyed to be $1,-300.00, and that there were four hundred acres of land burned with a difference in value immediately before and immediately after the fire in…