Georgia, Ashburn, Sylvester & Camilla Railway Co. v. Collins

Jordan, Presiding Judge.

The plaintiffs are seeking to recover for damages to timber lands by a fire allegedly caused by the negligence of the defendant railroad company. It is alleged that the railroad company was negligent in permitting grass, weeds, and other flammable material to accumulate on its right of way, in permitting carbon to accumulate in an engine, in failing to equip the engine with a screen to prevent the emission of hot and burning carbon onto the right of way and lands of the petitioners, in permitting such an emission, and in failing to put out and prevent the spreading of…