113 Neb. 344 | Neb. | 1925
This is an action to recover damages to crops on account of the failure of defendant, an irrigation district, to furnish to plaintiff his proportionate share of available water during the growing season of 1920. The irrigating system was in operation and the land on which the crops were growing was in the irrigation district. It was alleged in the petition that defendant negligently failed to apportion and distribute to plaintiff the water to which he was entitled and that the resulting damages were $13,340. The answer contained a general denial and a plea of contributory negligence. Upon a trial of the issues, the jury rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for one dollar only, and from a judgment thereon he has appealed.
The assigned error upon which plaintiff relies for a reversal is the failure of the trial court to. set aside the ver
Reversed.