Ocheltree v. Carl
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Ceder District Court. This is the case of a tenant suing his landlord for damages sustained by the trespassing animals of the latter. A recovery of $177,43 was had, and the defendant brings the cause here to have certain rulings of the court trying the same, reviewed.
1Opinion of the Court
Lowe, Oh. J.
The evidence under-which this case was put to the jury, shows the general features of the same, upon the facts, to be about as follows :
The defendant owned a large farm under one inclosure without division fences, a part of which he occupied and cultivated. Forty-nine acres thereof, more or less, he rented to plaintiff, who cultivated the same in corn, and was to have therefor two-thirds of the crop, and the defendant one-third. The crop was an average one for that year, say thirty-five bushels to the acre, worth from thirty to forty cents per bushel. These figures would make the…
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