City of Waco v. Craven

This is a companion case to the case of City of Waco v. Rook (Tex. Civ. App.) 55 S. W.(2d) 649, this day decided. This suit was brought by Mrs. Mattie L. Craven against the city of Waco for damages occasioned to her land by reason of the building of Lake Waco. She alleged that during the years 1929 and 1930 the city of Waco, for the purpose of providing an adequate water supply for its citizens, erected a large dam across the Bosque river, and that the plaintiff owned a farm of about 77 acres of land located a short distance below the dam; that said dam is about one mile in length, and is 60…