GRINNAN v. SOUTHERN RY. CO.

No. 104.

78 S.E.2d 165 (1953)

238 N.C. 432

GRINNAN v. SOUTHERN RY. CO.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 21, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Williams & Williams, Asheville, for plaintiff appellant.

W. T. Joyner, Raleigh, and Ward & Bennett, Asheville, for defendant appellee.


BARNHILL, Justice.

In view of plaintiff's evidence tending to show that the fire had burned over a half acre of plaintiff's land when her caretaker arrived, "and was bounding up pretty high," and yet it had not burned through the three feet of thick, high grass and weeds between the freshly burned fusee and the "chat" at the end of the railroad crossties, and the burned area was very narrow at the fusee, the defendant contends...

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