Davis v. Dunn

Appellees own and operate a farm in Calhoun County and in the valley of Ouachita River, near the place where the line of railroad of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company crosses that stream, and they instituted separate actions in the circuit court of Calhoun County against said railway company and the Director General of Railroads for damages to crops in the year 1919, alleged to have been caused by the overflow waters from the Ouachita River. The right of action in each case was based upon alleged acts of negligence on the part of the defendants, in failing to provide…