Supreme Court of Minnesota January 21, 1889 (Hoffman v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.)

Collins, J.

The ■ plaintiff in this case seeks to recover the value of certain stacks of hay which he alleges were destroyed by a fire caused by the negligent manner of operating one of defendant’s locomotives, on the 9th day of October, 3 885. The testimony as to the origin of the fire which burned the hay is fully as satisfactory as it was in Karsen v. Mil. & St. Paul Ry. Co., 29 Minn.