Cary-Platt v. Iowa Electric Co.

— The appellant assigns as error rulings of the court on the introduction of evidence, the sustaining of a motion for directed verdict, and the sustaining of a motion striking an amendment to the petition. The action of the court in striking the amendment to the petition is the principal matter involved in this appeal.

The action is for damages to plaintiff’s farm, alleged to have been caused by the flooding of the same by defendant’s dam across the Maquoketa River. The appellant’s farm, consisting °£ approximately 53 acres, is above the dam, and ^es adjacent to said river. The petition asks…