Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Larsen
Supreme Court of Colorado
JOrror to the County Court of Kit Car non County. Action for damages occasioned, as it is claimed, by fires set out bjr locomotive of plaintiff in error. The action was instituted before a justice of the peace. The trial before the justice resulted in a judgment for plaintiff. Afterwards upon appeal to the county court plaintiff again recovered judgment ; this time for $80.00. The railway company brings the case here by writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hayt
*72Plaintiff in error has filed in this court seventeen assignments of error. These assignments were all abandoned, however, upon oral argument, except those relating to evidence of the value of the grass destroyed by the fire. It is contended that the only evidence of damages received at the trial was incompetent and insufficient to support the judgment. An examination of the record discloses that three witnesses testified with reference to these damages. The first of these witnesses was the plaintiff Larsen. This witness, after testifying to the setting out of the fires from the defendant’s…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wallace v. FinchMichigan Supreme Court · 1872
3Cited by3 opinions
- City of Denver v. MinshallSupreme Court of Colorado · 1942
- Tilden v. HubbardIdaho Supreme Court · 1913
- City of Denver v. MinshallSupreme Court of Colorado · 1942