Galveston v. Potter Floral & Confectionery Co.

The Potter Floral & Confectionery Company, a corporation, brought this suit against the Galveston, Harrisburg & Sán Antonio Railway Company for damages alleged to have been sustained by it by reason of alleged negligence on the part of said railway company, whereby plaintiff's property was flooded by water during, and subsequent to, a rainfall on July 27, 1926. Plaintiff alleged, in substance, that on said date there was a rainfall over a large area north of its land and over its land and other adjacent lands, and that the defendant’s .roadbed, elevated above the surrounding and adjacent…