Axtell v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

This action was commenced by the plaintiff, Joseph Axtell, in the district court in and. for the county of Kootenai, on the twenty-first day of October, 1902, for the recovery of $1,200 damages suffered by the plaintiff on account of the loss of his house, household goods, furniture, wearing apparel, bam, woodhouse, outbuildings, tools, implements, vegetables and growing crops. Plaintiff alleges that on the night of July 4, 1902, a great and unusual rainstorm took place on the headwaters of Strong creek in Kootenai county, and along *394the course of that creek and Pend d’Oreille lake, and that…