Williams v. Henderson County Levee Improvement Dist. No. 3.

This is a consolidated suit, the original suits having been instituted in the district court of Henderson county by the plaintiffs in error, wherein damages to their land, caused by the defendant in error constructing levees and.digging diversion channels for the purpose of reclaiming overflow land situated in the Trinity river bottom, other than the lands of plaintiffs in error, was sought. Some of the plaintiffs in error also sought to recover damages for land taken by defendant in error in constructing its levee improvements, and for damage to crops, which they had grown on their land and…