Louisiana Court of Appeal May 8, 1928, No. 281 (Dougherty v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad)

lead-opinion

LECHE, J.

Carl B. Luikart leased during the year 1915, from the plaintiffs herein, certain agricultural lands constituting a plantation, situated just north of the City of Baton Rouge. About the 1st of November of that year, the crops grown by Luikart on the leased plantation, were almost entirely destroyed by fire, caused by sparks emitted from a locomotive of the defendant company.