Juhl v. Wild Rice Boom Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Norman county to recover $4,000. The case was tried before G-rindeland, J., who denied defendant’s motions for a directed verdict on each cause of action and on both causes of action, and a jury which returned a verdict for $1,700 in favor of plaintiff. From an order denying its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Pee CtrEiAM.
The facts in respect to the principal question involved in this case are the same as those presented in Heiberg v. Wild Rice Boom Co. supra, page 8, 148 N. W. 517, and the decision therein rendered controls the result here. In this case there are two causes of action, namely: (1) Por the alleged wrongful damming of the tributaries of the river; and (2) withholding the water therein until a large quantity had accumulated and then casting the same down in destructive quantities and washing out a part of plaintiff’s mill dam. There was a general verdict for plaintiff, and though…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Heiberg v. Wild Rice Boom Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1914