Dean v. Charleston & Western Car. R. R.

Citations

• 55 S.C. 504
• 33 S.E. 579
• 1899 S.C. LEXIS 130

Syllabus

<p>Damages — Fire—Railroads—Real Property — Personal Property— Rev. Stat., 1688, Construed. — The first clause of Rev. Stat., 1688, relating to liability of railroad companies for property destroyed by fire from their locomotives, embraces real and personal property (trees, underbrush, leaves), and the second clause does not limit the property so destroyed to such as the company can obtain insurance upon.</p>