Webb v. Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation District

Plaintiff brought this action to recover for damages to growing crops, improvements, and other personal property by surface floodwaters, alleged.to have been wrongfully cast upon his land by defendant’s irrigation canal. A jury awarded plaintiff a verdict for $1,000' upon which the trial court entered judgment. Motion for new trial was overruled and defendant appealed, contending that the court erred in refusing to sustain defendant’s motion for directed verdict at the conclusion of plaintiff’s case, in giving and failing to give certain instructions, and in refusing to give defendant’s…