Grimm v. Cooperative Electric Power & Light Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, J.:

This was an action by landownérs against defendant company to recover damages for the destruction of a hedge fence along one side of their farm.

Judgment was rendered upon the jury’s verdict in favor of plaintiffs, and defendant has appealed.

The petition, which was filed on May 29, 1953, alleged that on or about June 9, 1952, defendant company sprayed the greater portion .of two hundred rods of hedge fence along the west side of plaintiffs’ farm for the purpose of killing it so that it would not interfere with defendant’s electric power line…