Case Name: Patrick Roddy, appellee, v. Missouri Pacific Railway Company, appellant
Court: Nebraska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Nebraska
Decision Date: 1915-06-05
Citations: 98 Neb. 410
Docket Number: No. 18150
Parties: Patrick Roddy, appellee, v. Missouri Pacific Railway Company, appellant.
Judges: Rose, Sedgwick and Hamer, JJ., not sitting.
Reporter: Nebraska Reports
Volume: 98
Pages: 410–410

Head Matter:
Patrick Roddy, appellee, v. Missouri Pacific Railway Company, appellant.
Filed June 5, 1915.
No. 18150.
Appeal from the district court for Otoe county: Harvey D. Travis, Judge.
Affirmed.
B. P. Waggener, J. A. C. Kennedy and Philip E. Horan, for appellant.
Thomas F. Roddy and Arthur A. Bischof, contra.

Opinion:
Barnes, J.
This is the second appeal in this case. When the former appeal was considered, it was held that the judgment, so far as it related to the present cause of action, should be reversed because the evidence was insufficient to show that any freight train of the defendant company had passed plaintiff's premises prior to, or at the time, the fire started which destroyed plaintiff's trees or timber, and that how the fire originated was merely a conjecture. 91 Neb. 75. When the cause was remanded to the district court, further evidence was introduced on the second trial, which, if believed by the jury, was sufficient to sustain the present verdict. The judgment of the district court is therefore
Affirmed.
Rose, Sedgwick and Hamer, JJ., not sitting.