G., C. & S. F. R'y Co. v. Sumrow

Opinion by

Willson, J.

§ 329. Market value of growing crop; evidence admissible to prove. It was not error to admit the evidence objected to by appellant as to the damage done to appellee’s crop. It is evident from appellee’s claim that it was for damages for the partial destruction of his matured but ungathered cotton crop. In arriving at an estimate of such damage it was competent for him to prove that the cotton destroyed would have made, when gather, ginned and baled, three average bales, and that the market value of said three bales would have been $40 each, less the expenses of gathering,…