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115 Minn. 537

Zilbert v. Blakely

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided October 6, 1911

Supreme Court of Minnesota · decided 1911-10-06

Action in the district court for Beltrami county to recover $450 damages to hay and grass caused by defendant’s cattle and sheep. The answer was a general' denial. The case was tried before Stanton, J., who denied defendant’s motion fora directed verdict. The jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for ten dollars. Prom an order granting defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding, the verdict, plaintiff appealed.

Affirmed · Decided 1911-10-06

Per Curiam.

¶1This action was brought to recover damages for the claimed destruction, by the defendant’s sheep and other stock, of hay and grass growing on plaintiff’s. *538land. Upon the trial the plaintiff obtained a verdict for ten dollars. Thereafter, •on defendant’s motion, the court ordered judgment in defendant’s favor, notwithstanding the verdict. The case is brought to this court on appeal from that order.

¶2An examination of the evidence discloses that the plaintiff had sowed timothy and clover seed in the spring of 1910, while snow was on the ground, on ten acres -of newly-cleared and broken land. The land was unfenced and was thereafter over-run by defendant’s stock at times during the spring and early summer, and the injury claimed resulted therefrom. The evidence wholly failed to show any substantial growth of hay on the land at the time of the claimed injury, or any destruction of hay or grass occurring thereon, and it does not appear that any substantial damage could be established upon a new trial.

¶3In this state of the testimony the order appealed from was justified.

¶4Affirmed.

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