Threatt v. Brewer Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2013
6 state decisions
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“[Tjhis plaintiff is entitled to have the defendant to pay him damages for thus ruining, for the time, at any rate, his fertile bottoms. In the measure of the damages to the plaintiff for the injuries to his thirty-five acres of bottom lands, the jury should be limited, in ascertaining his damages, to the difference in the value of the lands from 8th May, 1890, to the date plaintiff brought his suit. But in the assessment of his damages from having a tainted — bad smelling — deposit thrown upon his bottom lands and in his ditches, they (the jury) are not limited to the actual injury in the market value of those lands from 8th May, 1890, to the date, in May, 1893, when the suit was brought; but they may find a reasonable, just compensation by way of damages to the plaintiff for this matter. This deposit has a threefold injury — first, it destroys the fertility of the lands; second, by filling up the ditches, it causes water to stand upon other parts of the land; and, third, the deposits exhale noxious odors. For the first and second injuries, the verdict must be limited to the depreciation in the market value caused by the deposits from 8th May, 1890, to May, 1893. As to the third, the jury must estimate in dollars and cents what the bad odors from these deposits, between the same dates, may have damaged the plaintiff, if any such damage has occurred.”
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