V. & A. Meyer & Co. v. Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

McEnery, J.

V. & A. Meyer, a commercial firm domiciled in the city of New Orleans, sue the defendant company for $2536 97, with 5 per cent, interest thereon from legal demand, and the value of fifty-four bales of cotton wliich had been placed upon defendants’ platform at a flag station for shipment, and which was destroyed by fire while awaiting shipment.

*640Plaintiffs allege tlie cotton was destroyed, by sparks omitted from one of the. engines of the defendant company; that said company was grossly negligent in failing to use on its engines the necessary…