Texas Supreme Court June 4, 1894, No. 137. (Martin, Wise & Fitzhugh v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.)

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

This action was brought by Martin, Wise

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Fitzhugh, against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, to recover the value of cotton alleged to have been burned by fire originating from sparks escaping from defendant’s locomotives, while the cotton was on "the platform of a compress company some distance from the railway, for the purpose of being compressed preparatory to