Farm Bureau Lumber Corporation v. McMillan

Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.

An instruction, concerning the measure of damages for the destruction of a hay crop, is claimed to be erroneous.

The landowner, McMillan (appellee), brought action against the Farm Bureau Lumber Corporation (appellant) for damages for the alleged destruction of a “20-acre meadow . . . which could have been harvested at a profit of $20 per ton.” Damages for $400 were claimed. The jury verdict was for $300. McMillan claimed that his meadow had been planted to lespedeza in 1945, and that the lespedeza reseeded itself in 1946, and would have produced a crop of hay, except…