Marande v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.

Syllabus

<p>This was an action to recover from the railway company the value of plaintiffs’ cotton destroyed by fire while in the company’s cars on its tracks near its terminal wharf. On the facts, Held: 1. That the obvious danger resulting from the use of locomotives about so easily ignitible a material as cotton was clear and the jury would have been reasonably justified in drawing the inference that it had caused the fire; 2. That the proof showed negligence in the care of the property; 3. That the jury would have had reasonable ground to inter negligence from the inadequacy of the fire apparatus, and from the want of instructions as to its use, or competent men to handle it.</p>