Castille v. Cormier

Citations

• 144 La. 640
• 81 So. 210
• 1919 La. LEXIS 1604

Syllabus

<p>(Syllabus by the Court.) '</p> <p>Negligence <&wkey;121(3) — Fire — Proximate Cause — Recovery.</p> <p>While it does not follow, because a fire occurs after an engine has passed, that the one happening is necessarily the consequence of the other, yet, where a fire occurs, the ignition of which is explicable by the proximity of an engine, capable, through negligence, of emitting sparks and cinders, and upon no other theory which finds any support in the facts, it is unnecessary, in order to entitle the owner of the burned property to recover, that he should have followed the sparks or cinders from the engine to the property and watched the process of ignition.</p>