Lund v. Village of Princeton

Thomas Gallagher, Justice.

Plaintiff, Wallace D. Lund, brought this action against the village of Princeton for breach of an implied oral contract to supply reasonable electrical power to the plaintiff’s chicken hatchery in Princeton. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the amount of $18,000. Defendant appeals from an order denying its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or, in the alternative, for a new trial.

From 1937 to 1948 plaintiff operated a single 72,000-egg Snow incubator with 12 elements rated at 230 volts on the main floor of his building. In the fall of…