Baker v. the City of Ft. Worth

This suit was filed by the petitioner, W. J. Baker, on September 9, 1946, against the respondent, City of Fort Worth, for flood damages to his land and personal property suffered in March 1945 as a result of the City’s erecting a bridge, its approaches and embankments, across the Clear Fork of the Trinity River in 1937. The improvement was alleged to have obstructed' and diverted the natural flow of the water in the flood channel of the river so as to overflow about 10 acres of petitioner’s land therein situated and upon which he owned and operated a nursery and retail floral business. It was…