Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Merritt

KEY, Associate Justice.

The nature and result of this suit is stated as follows in appellant’s brief: Appellees, Queen V. Merritt and her husband, John H. Merritt, sued the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas, in the District Court of Bell County, Texas, on May 33, 1905, for damages to their 114 acre tract of land near Little River in Bell County, Texas, occasioned by overflows during the months of April and May, 1905, alleged to have been due to the negligent construction and maintenance of appellant’s embankment, culverts, sluices, right-of-way ditches, and especially of a…