Preston v. Farmers Irrigation District

Plaintiff brought action against the Farmers Irrigation District, defendant and appellee, to recover damages of $2,656.74 to an 80-acre tract of ground and the crops growing thereon, because of the wrongful failure of defendant to deliver water from its canal for irrigation purposes. The jury returned a verdict for only $118.75, upon which judgment was entered. Plaintiff has- appealed.

Plaintiff sets out many assignments of error, among them that the verdict was not sustained by the evidence ■and is contrary to the evidence; that the verdict is so inadequate as to raise the presumption that it…