Buchanan v. Hammond

This is an appeal from a judgment slightly in excess of ten thousand dollars in an action for the breach of a twenty-year lease (from April 13, 1956 to April 13, 1976) of respondents’ gravel plant to the appellant Hammond, agent for the corporate defendant Valley Cement Company.

While there are eighteen separate assignments of error, only four questions are presented. The first is the right to damage for failure to operate the plant; the second is the item of damage for loss of fish; the third is the conversion of a check in the sum of $378.79; and the fourth is for the damage sustained in…