Tennessee Cent. Ry. Co. v. McCowan Et Ux.

W. N. McCowan and wife, Rosetta McCowan, brought this suit against Tennessee Central Railway Company and alleged as their cause of ¿ction that defendant permitted combustible materials to accumulate on its right-of-way and near its track which runs through Putnam County, Tennessee, and that these .inflammable materials were negligently set on fire by sparks of fire wbicb escaped from defendant’s train; tbis fire spread over plaintiffs’ lands and destroyed growing timber, fences and fertilizing materials on these lands; and plaintiffs were greatly damaged thereby.

Defendant pleaded the general…