Smith, C. J. This action is to recover compensation in damages for the destruction of timber and other injury done to the plaintiff’s land from fire, alleged to have been communicated by sparks escaping from the smoke-stack of an engine running on the defendant’s road, in the month of March, 1878. Three issues extracted from the pleadings were submitted to and passed on by the jury.…
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