Williams v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Fite. Whitfield superior court. September 3, 1912.
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
Williams brought suit against the Southern Bailway Company, to recover for injury to certain described farm lands belonging to the plaintiff, and alleged to have been caused by the embankments of the railway company ponding the water on the land and causing the soil and sediment to accumulate in the ponds, and the resulting expanse of water to seep into the adjoining land of the plaintiff, so as to damage and render it unfit for cultivation. The evidence tended to show that the embankment and culvert had been constructed by the predecessor in title of the defendant, about twenty-five years…
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