Coppenger v. Babcock Lumber & Land Co.

Two men were incinerated in forest fires which swept over portions of the Great Smokies in.the early fall of 1925. These fires burned for weeks and were of grave public concern, continuously newspaper comment was given of the course of the fire and of the attempts made by fire-fighters to check it. The fires that we are concerned with were burning in Monroe county and over a portion of the mountains owned by the Babcock Lumber & Land Company. This company was removing timber from the land and had camps and logging crews in the mountains at the time; it had constructed logging railroads up the…