Thompson v. American Steel & Wire Co.

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Linn,

Plaintiff has judgment on a verdict for damage to Ms land for agricultural purposes resulting from fumes emitted by appellant’s manufacturing plant. The appeal complains of two rulings on offers of evidence.

The first arose in the cross-examination of an expert witness called by plaintiff. After testifying that property damage was caused by the fumes from defendant’s works, he was cross-examined at length (fifty-five pages of the cross-examination appear in the printed record), and during the examination reference was made by him and by cross-examining counsel to a…