Hovey v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Co.

In his declaration, plaintiff avers that on July 3, 1903, certain growing crops belonging to him and one Alvin Woodthorp, situated on the west 96 acres of the southwest quarter of section 14, Vernon township, Shiawassee county, were, through defendant’s negligence, flooded by water and damaged, and that Woodthorp assigned his claim to plaintiff. The issue was submitted to a jury, who rendered a verdict in plaintiff’s favor. Defendant seeks a reversal of that judgment on the ground that there was no evidence that plaintiff owned an interest in those crops', and that the assignment of Woodthorp…