Morton Salt Co. v. Keele

R. D. Keele sued Morton Salt Company, a corporation, for damages for injury to land and hay caused by an overflow of salt water from a reservoir belonging to appellant. A jury found that salt water from appellant’s plant flooded plaintiff’s land, damaging the same in the sum of $1,800, and also destroyed meadow hay growing thereon of the value of $45, for which the judgment appealed from was rendered.

These findings were in our opinion authorized by the evidence, and are adopted as our conclusions on these issues.

1. Under several appropriate assignments appellant contends that plaintiff’s…