Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Ochiltree
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, First District, in an appeal from Orange County. Ochiltree and another sued the railway company and had judgment. Defendant appealed, and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ramsey
delivered the opinion of the court. '
This was a suit by J. A. Ochiltree and another against the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company for damages to their crops of rice, due, as was averred, to overflow of their lands caused by the improper construction of appellant’s railway and its failure to maintain sluices and culverts sufficient to carry off the natural flow of surface water from their lands. A full statement of the facts is given in the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals which need not he here repeated. The writ of error was granted because it was believed, as ■presented, that there…
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