Williams v. Thompson

Petitioners C. B. Williams et ux. sued Frank L. Thompson, respondent, for actual and exemplary damages for cutting down the natural slope of a roadway, thereby depriving petitioners’ adjacent land of lateral support and exposing it to sloughing and erosion.

After trial without a jury, the trial court gave petitioners judgment for $3,500 actual damages and $500 exemplary damages. The Court of Civil Appeals reversed the judgment and rendered it for respondent. 249 S. W. 2d 238.

River-Crest Company owned 629% acres of land about three miles west of Fort Worth. On June 6, 1911, it executed a map or…