Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Maddox

COLLARD, Associate Justice.

Appellee B. T. Maddox brought, this suit July 19, 1899, against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company and Dallas Consolidated Electric Street Railway Company, alleging that, defendants, by the construction of their road without sufficient waterways, in Dallas, had caused the overflow of his homestead, resulting in sickness-in his family, requiring medicine and doctor bills to his wife and children, — the wife’s health permanently injured, loss of services, and-claiming damages for overflowing his well, partially filling it with sand,, killing fruit trees and…