Tres Palacios Rice & Irrigation Co. v. Eidman

GILL, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by H. B. and S. O. Eidman to recover of the appellant irrigation company damages for breach of contract to furnish Avater for the irrigation of a rice crop planted by the Eidmans in 1903. A trial by jury resulted in a verdict and judgment for plaintiffs, and the company prosecuted this appeal.

THe plaintiffs’ cause of action as stated in the petition is, in substance, as follows:

It was averred that the defendant company leased 120 acres of irrigable land to plaintiffs to be planted in rice during the year 1903. That it was a corporation organized for…