Stephens v. Mutual Lumber Co.

Citations

• 103 Wash. 1
• 173 P. 1031
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1031

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Fires—Loss of Goods — Contributory Negligence— Evidence — Sufficiency. Employees in a logging camp cannot recover of the company for the loss of household goods, destroyed by a fire negligently allowed to spread, where they were experienced woodsmen, knew the danger, and had every opportunity to remove and protect their goods.</p> <p>Same — -Fires—Negligence—Proximate Cause — Evidence — Sufficiency. In an action by an adjoining owner for the loss of property destroyed by a fire starting from sparks from defendant’s logging engine, there can be no recovery in the absence of any evidence of negligence in allowing the sparks to escape from the engine or in allowing the fire to spread from the immediate vicinity of the engine; especially where it appeared that there would have been no loss if the wind had not suddenly changed and jumped the fire to plaintiff’s premises.</p>