Valentine v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Schoolcraft; Steere, J. Case by John M. Valentine against the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company for the negligent burning of certain timber. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. The following is the plat referred to in the opinion:
1Opinion of the CourtBlair, J.
The plaintiff in this action seeks to recover from the defendant the value of certain forest products alleged to have been consumed by fire on May 22, 1905, by and through the negligence and carelessness of the defendant. The main track of defendant’s railroad, running from Minneapolis to Sault Ste. Marie, crosses the lower part of the Upper Peninsula in an easterly and westerly direction. The private logging railroad of the Thompson Lumber Company crosses defendant’s track in Schoolcraft county, running in a northerly and southerly *153direction, from Thompson on Lake Michigan northerly into the…
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