HAMILTON, J.
In the summer of 1959, plaintiff owned a field of ripe wheat immediately adjoining defendant's property. On the afternoon of July 23, 1959, a dry, hot day in Whitman County, when the wind was allegedly blowing toward plaintiff's land, defendant undertook to plow a fireguard upon and around his land with an industrial type D-6 Caterpillar tractor, a piece of equipment not particularly designed for farm work. During the course of defendant's operation,...
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