15 A. 143 | N.H. | 1888
The statute upon which the action is founded provides that "the proprietors of every railroad shall be liable for all damages which shall accrue to any person or property by fire or steam from any locomotive or other engine on such road." G. L., c. 162, s. 8. It makes no distinction between different kinds of property. Under it, in Rowell v. Railroad,
The testimony tending to show that other fires were set about the same time by the same engine was competent. Boyce v. Railroad,
Judgment on the verdict.
BLODGETT, J., did not sit: the others concurred.