Bognuda v. Pearson

The plaintiff sued the defendants to secure a judgment for damages in the aggregate sum of eight thousand dollars, alleged to he the extent, measured in money, of the injury alleged to have been inflicted upon the crops of alfalfa growing on certain lands of plaintiff in Glenn County and upon said lands by the alleged acts of the defendants in causing said lands to be flooded with water. The complaint specifically describes those acts, and the answer likewise denies each and all of the averments of plaintiff’s pleading.

The cause was tried by a jury, who awarded the plaintiff damages in the…