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KNIGHT v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO.

No. 7493.

73 F.2d 76 (1934)

KNIGHT v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 27, 1934.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. P. Highsmith, of Baxley, Ga., for appellant.

Larry E. Pedrick, Leon A. Wilson, and John W. Bennett, all of Waycross, Ga., for appellees.

Before BRYAN, HUTCHESON, and WALKER, Circuit Judges.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The appellant brought an action in a Georgia state court against the appellee, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, a Virginia corporation, and B. C. Poppell, a citizen and resident of the state of Georgia, claiming damages in a sum exceeding $3,000, alleged to have been caused by a passing locomotive setting fire to ignitible substances on the right of way of the appellee; the fire so started spreading to land of the appellant contiguous to...

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