City of Waco v. Roberts

Appellees owned a tract of land in Waco, about 118 feet frontage and running back about 200 feet, about two blocks from Waco creek, on which land were located three houses, one of them being occupied by appellees as their family residence. Appellant dug a channel and changed said creek, making same rim near appellees’ property. Appellees instituted this suit to recover compensation for the permanent damage which they claimed to have suffered by the new channel being dug and the embankment made by dirt piled on the side thereof in such a way that the water was impounded and held on their land…