1 N.D. 140 | N.D. | 1890
The plaintiff and appellant is seeking by this suit to recover damages sustained by him by reason of the destruction of his grain by fire. He claims that the fire was set by the defendant, or his agents or servants on defendant’s land, and spread to the farm of the plaintiff, where it burned his grain. The jury rendered a verdict for defendant, and the plaintiff asks this court to review the proceedings in the court below. It is said that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict. To sustain this claim, we must hold that the trial court should have directed a verdict for the plaintiff. We have carefully examined the evidence, and without discussing it, we are clearly of the opinion that for the court to have directed a verdict for the plaintiff would have been unwarranted. The