International Harvester Co. of America v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cerro Gordo District Court. — C. H. Kelley, Judge. The plaintiff claims that defendant negligently set fire to certain stocks of farming implements kept by the plaintiff in its warehouse at Mason City. There was verdict and judgment thereon for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Salinger, J.-
I. The appellant asserts the court erred in permitting plaintiff to introduce in evidence, as the basis for allowance of damages, the prices at which it supplied dealers with goods such as are alleged to have been destroyed by the negligence of defendant; that it erred in-this respect because the prices put in evidence by the use of Exhibit F were arbitrarily fixed by plaintiff itself, and were not the cost at which the goods could be replaced by plaintiff from factories at which the destroyed goods had been purchased; that it erred in refusing to strike Exhibit F because same…
2Cases cited69 opinions
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- Tooley v. . BaconNew York Court of Appeals · 1877
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