Case ID: mo-app_80/html/0507-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BLAND, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

E. F. Ordelheide et al., Respondents, v. Wabash Railroad Company, Appellant.
    St. Louis Court of Appeals,
    May 9, 1899.
    Loss by Fire: common carrier’s liability for fire communicated by its locomotives. In the ease at bar the appellant was an insurer against loss by fire directly or indirectly communicated by its locomotive engines.
    F. D. Strack et al., Respondent, v. Wabash Railroad Co., Appellant, No. 7389, affirmed for the reasons above given.— Reporter.
    
      Appeal from the Montgomery Circuit Court. — Hon. Elliott M. Hughes, Judge.
    Affirmed.
    See points and authorities between same parties on page 357 of this volume.
   BLAND, P. J.

The property described in the petition in this case was personal property contained in the grain-building mentioned in the petition in the case of Ordelheide v. Wabash Railroad Co., No. 7390, and lost by the fire which consumed that building April 6, 1895. It was not the individual property of Ordelheide, but the partnership property of the respondents, who were not parties to the Ordelheide lease, and are not therefore bound by it. As to this property the appellant was an insurer against loss by fire directly or indirectly communicated by its locomotive engines. Walker v. Railway, 68 Mo. App. 465. It being admitted that the fire was communicated by appellant’s locomotive engines, the necessary corollary to this admission, is that appellant’s liability to pay the value of the property is also admitted. Judgment affirmed.

All concur.