Bates v. Van Pelt

COLLARD, Associate Justice.

The appellee, W. W. Van Pelt, brought this suit April 20, 1889, in the District Court, against the appellant, E. A. Bates, for damages to his homestead, one acre of ground, 75 varas square, fronting on Garden Street, alleged to be a public street of the town of Batesville, in Zavala County. The petition shows that plaintiff has but one way to and from his premises, by and on Garden Street on the east, and that defendant obstructed this way b)r digging two ditches, one in the street next to his lot, and one across the street near the southeast corner of the same,…