102 Iowa 425 | Iowa | 1897
A suit between these parties for the same cause was determined in the superior court in September, 1894, in which the jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of three hundred dollars, and there was a special finding by the jury that the sewer as maintained was a nuisance. The plaintiff in this suit pleaded the judgment in that suit as a basis, as we understand, for exemplary damages in this suit, and the court instructed the jury that such damages might be awarded if the defendant, after such verdict,