Hopkins v. Ravalli County Electric Cooperative, Inc.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict. The judgment was in the amount of $4,560 and costs. The action was one for damages, both actual and exemplary, for the death of dairy cows and losses occasioned by poisoning, resulting from the use of a poisonous chemical sprayed upon grass and weeds by defendant, appellant here.

Appellant maintains an electric substation on a fifty-foot square tract of land which is bounded on three sides by land owned by respondent. The fourth side of appellant’s land abuts a county road. Respondent operate a dairy farm and grazes his herd on a…