McLellan v. Brownsville Land & Irrigation Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Cameron County. Tried below before Hon. Stanley Welch.
1Opinion of the Court
FLY, Associate Justice.
Appellant sought to recover damages arising from the destruction of his sorghum and cotton crops in the year 1904, by water which was collected by appellee from the Bio Grande and caused to flow over his land. The cause was tried by jury and resulted in a verdict and judgment for appellee.
The facts do not present a case where a calamity has suddenly come upon a party, and the evil effects of which he has used no efforts to mitigate or avert, but it is a case in which a citizen who has had land leased for several years, plants his crop on that land, although since he…
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