Gates v. Boston & Maine Railroad

The plaintiffs, in a declaration in two counts, seek to recover damages for the burning of cord wood and standing wood in the town of Middleton. They allege in the first count that on or about May 2, 1922, the defendant’s agents set fire to a pile of railroad ties located along its tracks and by reason of their negligence while burning the ties, caused a forest fire, which spread to the plaintiff’s property and burned it; and in the second count the negligence relied on is the failure of the defendant’s agents to take proper precautions to stop or control a fire started on its premises-by its…