Mayflower Investment Company v. Stephens

THOMAS, Justice.

Appellee Russell S. Stephens, as plaintiff below, brought suit against Mayflower Investment Company, a corporation, and its President and Vice-President, in damages for trespasses and other wrongs affecting appellee’s land. Appellee alleged that Mayflower was the owner of the adjoining land to the East, and in the process of improving its tract as a residential addition to the City of Irving, the corporation and its officers constructed a drainage ditch to divert the waters from a natural creek which meandered through Mayflower’s land, and in doing so failed to observe the…