Johnson v. City of Fairmont

WILSON, Ci-iief Justice.

Defendants moved separately for judgment notwithstanding a verdict rendered against them jointly in favor of plaintiffs for $960, or in the alternative for a new trial, and plaintiffs appealed from orders granting defendants’ respective motions for judgment.

Since .1915 plaintiffs, husband and wife, have owned and lived upon a quarter section farm, located northeasterly a mile or two from the city of Fairmont. They there operated a dairy farm, and of course made their home thereon. Center Creek, which is perhaps the only available drainage for the city, runs through…