Flint & Walling Manufacturing Co. v. Beckett
Indiana Supreme Court
From Hamilton Circuit Court; Ira W. Christian, Judge. Action by Wymond J. Beckett against the Flint & Walling Manufacturing Company. From a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff for $1,100, defendant appeals. Transferred from Appellate Court under §1337u Burns 1901, Acts 1901, p. 590.
1Opinion of the CourtGillett, J.
Appellee brought this action to recover damages for an injury to his barn and the contents thereof, owing to the fact that appellant constructed a windmill thereon in such an insufficient manner that it fell. As a number of the questions which this appeal involves depend upon the construction of the complaint, as to whether it is in tort or contract, our first undertaking shall be to state, so far as essential to an understanding of the question of construction, the substance of said complaint. The following facts are pleaded: Defendant is, and was on December 12, 1902, a corporation engaged…
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