McVay v. Central California Investment Co.

The nature of the action is shown by the following allegation of the complaint; “The defendant, on the twenty-seventh day of August, 1904, intentionally and negligently kindled a fire on said defendant’s land in Colusa County, California, and adjoining the said land of plaintiffs, and negligently suffered said fire to extend beyond its own land, and so negligently watched and tended said fire that it came into the plaintiffs’ said land and destroyed all the property hereinbefore described without any fault or negligence on the part of plaintiffs or either of them, and the loss of plaintiffs…