Feld v. Columbus & G. Ry. Co.

The trial judge submitted this case to a jury under pertinent instructions and upon full evidence, and the jury returned a verdict for the defendant railway company. The evidence discloses, and in view of the verdict we must assume that the jury found, the salient facts ás follows:

On the morning of April 21, 1927, between six and seven o ’clock, the levee on the east side of the Mississippi river broke at Mound’s Landing, about eighteen miles by air line north of the city of Greenville, as a result of which an area approximately sixty miles wide east and west, and about one hundred miles long…