Court Opinion

ID: 6690672
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 21:37:27.067924+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:06.073311
License: Public Domain

GATES, J.
This is an action for -damages to plaintiff’s corn in the field, to -hay in the shock in the field, and to stacked hay at plaintiff’s barn done by defendant’s cattle at divers times from August, 1919, to January, 1920. The jury awarded plaintiff $500. From the judgment and an order denying a new trial, -defendant appeals.
There was evidence tending to show that defendant’s cattle destroyed the corn, and that such; corn was worth from $300 to $360. There was evidence tending to show that plaintiff had about 40 tons of hay in the shock in- the field and. about 35 tons of hay in the stack at his -barn, all of which was -consumed and was of the value of from $750 to $900, and that defendant's cattle were seen frequently at both places consuming this hay; but it also appears that Leedom’s cattle also consumed a portion of the hay in the shock, and that Leedom’s horses and1 plaintiff’s own horses also consumed a part of the hay in the stack.
It appeared that' respondent had obtained a judgment against Leedom in the sum1 of $200 for the damage done by his cattle and -horses. It was manifestly impossible for respondent’s four horses to have eaten more than 8 to-ns of hay during the period. So that, placing the lowest value upon the damage testified to, *228and deducting the amount of the judgment plus the value of the ■maximum amount of hay that could possibly have been consumed by respondent’s four horses therefrom., the residuum is greatly in excess of the amount of the verdict.
The judgment and order appealed from are affirmed. As damages for the delay caused by the taking of this appeal respondent will be awarded the sum. of $50, pursuant to the provisions of subdivision 5, § 2601, Rev. Codte 1919, as amended by chapter 158, Laws 1919, which sum the clerk will tax as a part of the costs in this court.
Note — Reported in 191 N. W. 947. See American Key-Numbered Digest, (1) Animals, Key-No. 100(4), 3 C. J. Sec. 468; (2) Costs, Key-No. 260(1), 15 C. J., Sec. 691-692.