Matteson v. Munro
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Stevens county against defendant Munro, sheriff of said county, and McCormick Harvesting Machine Company to recover $200 damages for wrongful seizure of wheat. The case was tried before Steidl, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $192.05. From an order denying a motion for a new trial conditionally on plaintiff’s consent to reduction of the verdict to $125, to which plaintiff consented, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
The plaintiff lived with a daughter in Morris, and owned a farm of eighty acres, twelve miles distant. For a number of years she had rented the farm to tenants, who furnished the seed, and delivered to her upon the farm one-third of the crop. For the year 1899 she had made an arrangement with a tenant to crop about seventy-five acres, she herself to furnish the seed, but no particular amount of wheat for seed had been determined, the tenant having the option as to amount, but was expecting to sow the whole seventy-five acres to wheat. On August 30, 1898, after the arrangement for 1899 above…
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