White v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad

This was an action by appellant, as trustee, etc., to recover alleged damages in the sum of one hundred and eleven thousand dollars, and over, growing out of the destruction by fire, of a certain factory building, together with a large amount of material and machinery therein contained. The building is designated as “The White Wheel Works,” situated in the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The complaint charges, among other things, as follows :

“ That on the eighth day of August, 1890, and for a long time prior thereto, the said defendant’s line of railroad was located, constructed and extended…