Wofford Rathbone v. Power Irrigation Co.

GILL, Associate Justice.

This is a suit by appellants to recover of the appellee, a corporation, damages alleged to have resulted from a failure on the part of appellee to furnish to appellants sufficient electrical current, to operate to its warranted capacity a 75-horse power electric motor used by them for pumping water for irrigation purposes, and which current the appellees had contracted to furnish. A trial by jury resulted in a verdict for appellee.

The appellants were the owners of 340 acres of land near the Guadalupe River in De Witt County, upon which they wished to grow rice by…