Swan v. Sproat

In their complaint respondents set up three causes of action against appellants. The first is for damage to an irrigation ditch by a flock of about three thousand sheep belonging to appellants; the second is for damage to crops by reason of lack of water resulting from said damage to respondents’ ditch; the third is for loss of grass and pasturage on lands which the respondents claim to have had under lease by reason of appellants permitting their flocks to “eat up, trample out, waste and destroy” the same. The jury returned a verdict for respondents for $100 on their first cause of action;…