Supreme Court of North Carolina October 24, 1917 (Broadfoot v. Atlantic Coast Line Railway Co.)

Brown, J.

Plaintiff testified that be was at home, about 1% miles away, and saw the smoke in the direction of bis land, which lay on the east side of the defendant railroad; that be went immediately to where the smote was, and the fire was burning and smouldering on the east side of the railroad, on the right of way, on top of an embankment, which is about the height of the top of a smokestack of