Cox v. Magnolia Gas Co.

The plaintiffs brought this action to recover damages for the destruction of fences and crops alleged to have resulted from the negligence of defendants when constructing a pipe-line on adjoining Hands which were under the same enclosure as the property of plaintiffs; it being specifically alleged that defendants had torn down the fence and set out fire on the adjoining property, which destroyed the fence protecting the property and that cattle had come upon the premises and destroyed the crops, and that the fire had spread to plaintiffs’ property, burning over pasture lands and destroying…