Boyd v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

This is an action to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the destruction of growing crops in the Middle creek valley on August 29, 1910, by reason of the same having been flooded with high water by which, it is alleged, plaintiff’s crops were destroyed. It is alleged and contended by plaintiff that the proximate cause of the flooded condition of plaintiff’s land and crops was the faulty construction of certain embankments thrown up by defendant in the building of its track yards in said valley, which changed the flow of the surface water in flood times from its former habit of…