Thompson v. Illinois Central Railroad
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Samson District Court. — A. B. ThoRNEll, Judge. Plaintiee has verdict and judgment for alleged damage to his crops and alleged depreciation of the value of his land caused by overflow waters, charged to be due to negligent conduct on part of defendant. Defendant appeals. —
1Opinion of the Court
.Salinger, J.
1. Judsmih-t: mis-tateniy treating ginai^and^per-1 manent: effect. I. In a suit brought and decided before the institution of. the suit we now have before us, this plaintiff' charged that defendant had injured him by wrongfully causing the same land involved in this suit to be „ , , ,.™ . ,, ., , flooded. There are differences m the suits, to which attention will be called later. But they . ,n -, u i ♦ are identical so tar as the alleged cause ot plaintiff’s damage is concerned. In both suits, the plaintiff charges that, by the building of grades and by the manner in which…
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