Larsen v. Standard Railway & Timber Co.

Citations

• 89 Wash. 447
• 154 P. 790
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 702

Syllabus

<p>Fires — Negligence — Cause op Fire — Evidence — Sufficiency— Conjecture. A recovery for the loss of timber alleged to have been communicated from a railroad fire on defendants’ lands cannot be sustained, where the year in which the fire occurred on plaintiffs’ lands rests entirely in conjecture, and in the same year of the railroad fire, other fires, not traced to that fire, broke out in the district on lands other than the defendants’, and the fire on defendants’ lands was not traced to the plaintiffs’ lands.</p>