Case Name: Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company v. Malott et al.
Court: Appellate Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1912-05-08
Citations: 50 Ind. App. 697
Docket Number: No. 7,661
Parties: Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company v. Malott et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Court of Appeals Reports
Volume: 50
Pages: 697–698

Head Matter:
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company v. Malott et al.
[No. 7,661.
Filed May 8, 1912.]
From Lawrence Circuit Court; William E. Otarlo, Special Judge.
Action by Claude G. Malott and another against the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Baiiroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiffs, the defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
W. R. Gardiner, O. K. Tharp, C. G. Gardiner and Edward Barton, for appellant.
Brooks £ Brooks, John If. Edwards, Barger & Hielos and Otto Gresham, for appellees.

Opinion:
Ibach, P. J.
— This was an action to recover damages from appellant for the destruction by fire of a stock of mercantile goods owned by appellees Claude G. and Noble Malott. The theory of the complaint was that the negligence of appellant permitted large sparks, cinders and coals to be emitted from its engine, and set fire to a pork house in Tunnelton, Indiana, from which it spread to the Knights of Pythias building, in which appellees' general store was located. A damage suit for the destruction of the Knights of Pythias building was considered by this court in the case of Baltimore, etc., R. Co. v. Reed (1912), ante, 220, 98 N. E. 141.
It is argued that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict, and that the court erred in giving and refusing to give certain instructions. The propositions raised have been decided practically against appellant in the case of Baltimore, etc., R. Co. v. Reed, supra. What was said in the opinion in that case concerning the sufficiency of the evidence, which was substantially the same in the two eases, decides that the verdict in the present case is sustained by the evidence. Somewhat different objections are presented to some of the instructions, although many of the points raised in argument on the instructions are the same as in the former ease. On consideration of the instructions as a whole, we are convinced that those given state the law of the case fully and correctly and that those refused were rightly refused.
On the authority of Baltimore, etc., R. Co. v. Reed, supra, the judgment is affirmed.