Payne v. Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship

Tiie opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poohé, J.

Plaintiff’s demand is for the sum of $12,800 as damages for the loss of a crop of sugar cane and stubble, and for amount of labor used thereon, occasioned by the act of the defendant, while constructing its railroad bed across his plantation, in doing which tho company stopped the ditches and other drains necessary to the proper cultivation of his aforesaid crop, which had been put in the ground in the fall of 1881, for harvest during the following season.

The defense is a general denial, and this appeal is taken by the company from a judgment…