Fugitt v. Farrell
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Dallas County ; E. B. Muse, Judge. Action by J. F. Fugitt against H. T. Farrell. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJones, C. J.
Appellant, J. F. Fugitt, brought this Suit in the district court of Dallas county against appellee, H. T. Farrell, to recover damages caused by an oyer-flow of his land by the west fork of the Trinity river. . It was appellant’s theory that the damages resulting from the overflow were caused by the negligent construction and maintenance of a railway owned by appellee and extending across his land in the general direction of north and south and running from appellee’s gravel pit to an intersection with the main line of the Texas & Pacific Railway. Appellee’s railroad was approximately one and…
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