Armendaiz v. Stillman
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Cameron. Tried below before the Hon. John 0. Russell. The opinion sufficiently presents the case. The record is immense, containing much pleading and evidence, and an extensive map, but the opinion contains all that is necessary to a proper understanding of the points decided in it.
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
This action was brought to the February term of the district court for Cameron county, by the appellant, to recover, damages claimed to have resulted to him from the destruction of property owned by him on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
The plaintiff alleged that he was the owner of improved real property opposite the city of Brownsville, and that in the year 1878 the defendants placed a jetty in the Rio Grande river, which *461so changed its current as to cause it to flow against his property, which it had not theretofore done, whereby his property was destroyed.…
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