Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Sultan
Mississippi Supreme Court
- Appeal from.the-circuit court of Bolivar county. PIoN. T. B. Watk-iNs, Judge. Suit by R. J. Sultan against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company.
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- Appeal from.the-circuit court of Bolivar county. PIoN. T. B. Watk-iNs, Judge. Suit by R. J. Sultan against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff for one hundred-dollars and defendant appeals and plaintiff cross appeals.. ■ - - The facts are fully stated in 'the opinion of the. court. ■ The only question presented on the direct appeal of the railroad company in this case is this: Where land has been taken either by eminent domain proceedings or by deed, by the railroad company for the building and operation of its line of railroad and the roadbed has been…
1Opinion of the Court
Reed, J.,
delivered tlie opinion of the court.
This is an action brought by B. I. Sultan against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Bailroad Company to recover damages to crops caused by the obstruction of surface water. Mr. Sultan was the lessee for a term of three years of certain land in Bolivar county, situated along the line of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Bailroad, and between the right of way of the railroad and Jones Bayou.
It appears that the roadbed or embankment of the railroad caused an obstruction in the flow of the surface water, so that something over six acres of the land leased…
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- Grayson v. BrooksMississippi Supreme Court · 1886
- Thompson v. Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City RailroadMississippi Supreme Court · 1913
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