Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Co. v. Littlefield

CHADICK, Chief Justice.

This is a common law negligent tort damage suit. The judgment of the trial court awarding the plaintiff a recovery of $1500.00, costs, etc., from the defendant is affirmed.

The plaintiff plead that the railroad company had negligently allowed its right-of-way to become covered with combustible material, dry grass, weeds, etc., and that its train caused a fire to originate on the right-of-way from whence it spread to plaintiff’s adjoining land, and that such negligence was the proximate cause of the destruction *17of substantial acreage in plaintiff’s pastureland seeded to…