California Supreme Court March 26, 1904, Sac. No. 1018. (Clark v. San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railway Co.)

VAN DYKE, J.

The defendant recovered damages in the sum of five hundred dollars, resulting from the burning of a harvester by a fire started on defendant’s right of way, and communicated to a field of standing grain adjoining, in which the harvester was situated. The fire was set out by a hot box on one of the defendant’s freight-trains near Elmdale Station in Stanislaus County.