Printable Format31-116.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 118, § 2; R.S. 1923, 31-116; Repealed, L. 1972, ch. 157, § 20; July 1.
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Willful setting of fire and negligence, essential to recovery. Emerson v. Gardiner, 8 Kan. 452, 455.
2. Railroad company not liable when no negligence shown. M.K.& T. Rly. Co. v. Davidson, 14 Kan. 349, 351.
3. Defendant liable if he intentionally set fire to the prairie. Hunt v. Haines, 25 Kan. 210.
4. Section purely remedial; does not abrogate the common law. Jarret v. Apple, 31 Kan. 693, 695, 3 P. 571.
5. Company not liable in absence of carelessness or negligence. A.T.& S.F. Rld. Co. v. Dennis, 38 Kan. 424, 426, 17 P. 153.
6. Fire carried by unanticipated gale and whirlwind; "prairies" defined and construed; question for jury. Cattle Co. v. Kline, 51 Kan. 23, 27, 32 P. 628.
7. Without proof of negligence no recovery unless fire intentional. Johnston v. Marriage, 74 Kan. 208, 210, 86 P. 461, 87 P. 74.
8. Section cited in considering railroad liability for damages by fire. A.T.&S.F. Rld. Co. v. Matthews, 174 U.S. 96, 101, 19 S. Ct. 609, 43 L.Ed. 909.