Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Pool

Walker, Associate Justice.

Appellant was sued by appellee for damages for injury to his land and crops of cotton and oats adjoining the track of the railway of appellant caused by alleged negligence in its construction of a bridge, and an embankment north of the bridge, whereby the waters of Heil’s creek, when swollen by rain, were thrown over the adjoining fields, washing away the soil and destroying the growing crops thereon. The petition described the situation of the land, the dimensions of the embankment, the want of culverts and sluices and the width of space left at the bridge in its…