J. T. Fargason & Sons, Inc. v. Cullander Machinery Co.

This is a suit to recover the sum of $28,661.50 as damages for the complete loss of a rice crop which was planted about June 1, 1952, on 197 acres of land in Coahoma County, and which rice crop consisted of a good stand thereof and was about 3 inches high at the time it died, because of the alleged failure of a well pump, motor and other equipment installed by the defendant, the appellee Cullander Machinery Company, Inc., of Belzoni, Mississippi, to continue to produce a sufficient quantity of water for the proper irrigation of the rice field.

The original declaration was predicated upon the…