Stevens v. Jim Wells County

Appellant sued appellee for damages done to his crop of cotton and com during the year 1928, by cattle, on account of the construction of a public road by appellee 20 feet into the cultivated fields of appellant. It was alleged that appellee tore down and destroyed the fence of appellant extending along the eastern boundary of his land and left it down without erecting another fence in place of the one destroyed; and that this allowed large herds of cattle and horses to range in and upon the fields of appellant, totally destroying his crops, and damaging him in the sum of 88,585. Appellant…