Cantrell v. Lusk

Citations

• 113 Miss. 137
• 73 So. 885

Syllabus

<p>1. Judgment. Injuries. Splitting causes of action.</p> <p>Where a landowner whose property was injured by the negligent construction and maintenance of a railroad right of way recovered for the full value of his land, he could not recover for the crops afterwards grown on that land. In other words, when the defendant paid for the land, the plaintiff would not in good conscience, be permitted to afterwards claim that the land had not been totally destroyed.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>Where a former recovery was only for injuries to the crops on the land, such recovery did not prevent a recovery afterwards for injuries to another crop.</p>