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UNITED STATES v. FEATHER RIVER LUMBER CO.

No. 290.

23 F.2d 936 (1928)

UNITED STATES v. FEATHER RIVER LUMBER CO.

District Court, N. D. California, N. D.

February 1, 1928.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Hatfield, U. S. Atty., of San Francisco, Cal., Albert E. Sheets, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Sacramento, Cal., and H. P. Dechant, Asst. Sol., Dept. of Agriculture, of Washington, D. C., for the United States.

L. H. Hughes, of Quincy, Cal., and C. E. McLaughlin and McLaughlin & McLaughlin, all of Sacramento, Cal., for defendant.

KERRIGAN, District Judge.

This is an action by the United States to recover damages from the Feather River Lumber Company on account of the destruction of timber in the Plumas National Forest, by a fire which started August 6, 1924. Defendant is charged with negligently setting this fire and negligently allowing it to spread.

Defendant operates a logging railroad on which it uses oil-burning logging or Shay engines, which at the time of the fire were not equipped...

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