Taylor v. State

HALE, Justice.

Appellant, Mrs. J. W. Taylor, having first obtained permission, sued appellee, the State of Texas, to recover damages on account of permanent injury to 120 acres of land. Her cause of action was predicated upon the provisions of Article I, Sec. 17, of the Constitution of Texas, Vernon’s Ann.St. She alleged that appellee had caused a drainage ditch to be constructed along the south side of its highway and, in order to empty the waters from such ditch into the Brazos river, had cut the west bank of said river at a point where the same intersects with said ditch; that as a…