MO. PAC. R. CO. v. ARK. SHERIFF'S BOYS' RANCH

No. 82-201.

655 S.W.2d 389 (1983)

280 Ark. 53

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. ARKANSAS SHERIFF'S BOYS' RANCH et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied September 19, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Friday, Eldredge & Clark by Herschel H. Friday and J. Phillip Malcom, Little Rock, for appellant.

Tom Allen and Harkey, Walmsley, Belew & Blankenship, Batesville, for appellees.


DUDLEY, Justice.

Sixteen appellee landowners filed four separate complaints against appellant, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and 29 of its employees. The appellees alleged they were entitled to recover compensatory and punitive damages for losses suffered as a result of fires caused by the negligent maintenance of both the right-of-way and the rolling stock of the appellant railroad and by the deliberate and intentional acts of the employees in throwing fuzes...

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