Texas Central Railway Co. v. Brown
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of.Erath. Tried below before Hon. W. J. Oxford.
1Opinion of the Court
SPEER, Associate Justice.
M. A. Brown and T. P. Harris, as joint owners of a lot of land situated in Dublin, Erath County, sued the Texas Central Bailroad Company for damages for permanent injury to said land, growing out of the negligent construction of a railroad embankment containing insufficient culverts to accommodate the flow' of surface water, by reason of which facts plaintiffs’ land had been overflowed, and its value materially lessened. The petition contained an allegation that Brown had sold all his interest in the land to his coplaintiff prior to the suit but subsequent to the…
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- Clark v. DyerTexas Supreme Court · 1891
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