Noyes v. French Lumbering Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover damages for unlawful detention of a sawmill site. The case was tried before Cant, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict for $645 in favor of plaintiffs. From an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
The complaint in this action was drawn on the theory that the measure of damages for withholding from plaintiffs the mill site in question was the special loss resulting from a failure to get certain logs cut into lumber. The damages were stated-to be $1,760.46. The trial was proceeding, and some evidence had been offered in support of this theory, when, upon objection by defendant, the court held that such rule of damages was not proper, and sustained the objection. Thereupon plaintiffs amended the complaint by alleging that the reasonable value of the mill site during the summer of 1899 was…
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