Brace v. Steele County

By this action, plaintiff is seeking to recover damages for the flooding of three- hundred fifty acres of land, which flooding he alleges was caused' by the construction, by the defendant, of a highway across a natural water course. Defendant’s answer is a general denial. Leave to intervene as a party defendant was granted to the State of North Dakota and an answer'in intervention has been filed. After the action had been noticed for trial, plaintiff moved for a change of place of trial, upon the ground that-he could not have a fair and impartial trial in Steele County, the county in which…