Lewis v. Texas N. O. R. Co.

HALE, Justice.

W. H. Lewis sued Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company for damages on account of injury to his rented land and prospective crops located in the valley of Cow Bayou in Falls County alleged to have resulted from flood waters flowing over ap-pellee’s embankment and railroad tracks. Plaintiff charged defendant with negligence in the following particulars, viz: (a) in failing to provide sufficient bridges, culverts and other drainage structures under its railroad tracks so as to allow the flood waters of Cow Bayou to pass freely under the same, in accordance with the requirements of…