Reuter

Action to recover damages on account of loss of property, caused by fire negligently set out, through negligence of the defendant. On the nineteenth day of November, 1914, the plaintiff was the lessee and in possession of certain real property located in San Bernardino County and was the owner of certain personal property located thereon of the value of $693.50. On that day and for some years prior thereto the defendant corporation was operating a railroad over the right of way and tracks of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, which right of way passes within a distance of two and one-half miles northerly from the premises on which said personal property of the plaintiff was located. On that day the defendant company was operating a train running easterly between the city of San Bernardino and the town of Daggett. While running through the territory north of the plaintiff’s premises, the train passed through the station Devore, northwesterly through the station called Keenbrook, and thence northwesterly to the station of Alray. It is four and seven tenths miles from Devore to Keenbrook and about twelve miles from Devore to Alray. There is an upgrade of about two per…