City of Waco v. Rook

This action was brought by Urban Rook and others against the city of Waco to recover certain damages alleged to have accrued to them as the result of the building of Lake Waco. In 1929, the city of Waco erected what is known as the Lake Waco dam across the Bosque river near Waco in McLennan county for the purpose of providing a water supply for the city of Waco. It was alleged that the dam is about 60 feet in height, one mile in length, and backs the water up the river for a distance of more than five miles and thus impounded more than thirteen billion gallons of water. It is further alleged…