SISK v. WHITE OAK LUMBER CO.


14 F.2d 552 (1926)

SISK v. WHITE OAK LUMBER CO.

District Court, W. D. Virginia.

August 11, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chase & McCoy, of Clintwood, Va., for plaintiff.

Burns & Kidd, of Lebanon, Va., and H. Claude Pobst, of Grundy, Va., for defendant.


McDOWELL, District Judge.

This is an action at law to recover damages for the destruction of the plaintiff's home by fire, alleged to have been occasioned by sparks thrown from the defendant's train. The first two counts of the plaintiff's original pleading are based solely on the statute of 1908, infra. In the third count the injury is alleged to have been caused by the wrong of some unnamed employees of the defendant.

The demurrer relates only to the original...

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