Churchill

This is an appeal hy the defendants from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of $1,384, the value of a pump, installed on the defendants’ ranch, pursuant to a contract for the purchase of the same, and for services and accessories in connection with its operation.

The defendants denied any indebtedness to the plaintiff and alleged that, by reason of the poor quality of the materials used in, the bad workmanship thereon, and the improper, negligent, and careless manner of installing the .machinery which was the basis of the second and third counts of the complaint, the pump broke down, never at any time ran in a satisfactory manner, or reasonably well, and was absolutely worthless to the defendants. By reason of these facts defendants claimed to have suffered a loss of their lemon crop- for the.year 1913, amounting to the sum of $2,500, their orange and lemon groves being also damaged to the extent of $720, by reason of their being unable to secure water to irrigate the same. To these amounts defendants added the amounts of various repair bills, and by way of cross-complaint, prayed for judgment against the plaintiff in the sum of $3,701.16.

The lower court found…