Dobbins v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Dallas County.
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAR, Associate Justice.
Prior to the construction of the road-bed of defendant in error there was, several hundred yards north of the point where Letot station is now situated, a depression from the east to the west which carried oft storm water from the surrounding lands. Said road-bed having been constructed north and south across this depression without the necessary culverts and sluices to carry off such water, it was in its course westward diverted by the road-bed and compelled to run south in the excavation made on 'the right of way on the east side of the track in building the road.…
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