Texas Pipe Line Co. v. Higgs

The Texas- Pipe Line Company has appealed from a judgment rendered against it in favor of W. F. Higgs for damages to his farm, occasioned by overflow of water from a heavy rainfall, and which the owner alleged resulted from the negligent manner in which the defendant constructed its pipe line across the land.

The surface of the land was rolling, and plaintiff had constructed terraces and drain ditches across his field in order to prevent washing of the soil from heavy rainfalls. The public road ran on two sides of the farm, and on each side of the road' there were drain ditches which diverted…