Mayo v. Halley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Story District Court. — Hon. J. H. Richard, Judge. Action for services rendered and material furnished under two different accounts, and for damages done to plaintiff’s crops by defendant’s animals; the total of plaintiff’s claims being $521.85, with a credit for house rent and cow pasture of $238.50, leaving the balance claimed to be due from defendant to plaintiff $283.35. Defendant denied plaintiff’s claim in toto, and interposed six separate counterclaims, in…
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Appeal from Story District Court. — Hon. J. H. Richard, Judge. Action for services rendered and material furnished under two different accounts, and for damages done to plaintiff’s crops by defendant’s animals; the total of plaintiff’s claims being $521.85, with a credit for house rent and cow pasture of $238.50, leaving the balance claimed to be due from defendant to plaintiff $283.35. Defendant denied plaintiff’s claim in toto, and interposed six separate counterclaims, in the total amount of $1,633. In the answers to special interrogatories, the jury fixed the amount which plaintiff was…
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
Counsel for appellee has filed an amendment to appellant’s abstract, but has not favored us with any argument, and we have been compelled to examine the abstract and the amendment thereto with considerable labor, to discover matters which could easily have been called to our attention by counsel. The case is complicated, because it involves conflicting testimony about a great number of small items of account, and claims for damages to crops, which, in the very nature of things, are always difficult to establish by satisfactory evidenced We have carefully gone over the entire case, but shall…
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