Walker v. Salt Flat Water Co.

BLAIR, Justice.

Appellants sued appellee, alleging that ap-pellee purchased a right of way across their property for the construction of a salt water pipe line, agreeing to “bury and maintain all pipe lines so as not to interfere with the cultivation or drainage of said land”; that ap-pellee constructed the pipe line, and, when it filled up the ditch in which the pipe was placed, it left the dirt banked or piled on top of the pipe line, creating or causing a large embankment or levee across appellants’ land; that, when it rained, water was caused to be impounded by the bank of dirt, damaging…