Polhans v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad

— This is an action for damages to recover the value of certain property destroyed by fire, which it was alleged was communicated by sparks from an engine on defendant’s road. In the complaint filed before the justice the plaintiff claimed that about ten acres of her meadow land were burned over, and that a part of the hay was cut but not stacked ; that the roots of the timothy were killed ; that three hundred feet of fence, and a few rows of growing corn, were also destroyed. The damage claimed was $148. The cause was submitted to a jury in the circuit court, and a verdict for $95 was…