Eells v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

Brannon, President:

Hettie Eells brought an action of trespass on the case in the circuit court of Kanawha County against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, alleging as her cause of action that that Company had built a bridge for railroad purposes across a stream, and so constructed its piers and abutments obliquely in *66the stream that they changed the natural course of the current and directed it against a certain lot of land of the plaintiff, causing the samo to wash away and cave in to a specified extent and undermining a number of forest and shade trees left there as a protection of the…